Living out on a farm, other people’s animals typically wander in and hang for a while. If we know who they belong to, we text …
Unexpected Visitors to My Garden
Extending another bed and planting soft touch hollies
There’s one part of my yard, behind the loropetalum hedge and under the beautiful Bismarck palm that is in a tight space that is tough …
Training my Hurricane Katrina rose to climb a post
I just purchased a new Peggy Martin (a.k.a. Hurricane Katrina) climbing rose. I have plenty of room for bush roses, but not a lot of …
Taming the Jungle and Replacing it with Oakleaf Hollies
Well, I have another area of my yard that needs a drastic revision. I have been working on my sun garden island, and now my …
Designing a new rose garden from scratch
I have been obsessed with wanting a rose garden with other cut flowers. There is a large grass (aka weed) former horse pasture where I …
The Critical Importance of Mulch
If you search this website for the word “brutal,” I’m pretty sure it will net you a plethora of results. I use the word frequently, …
Planting daylilies in a mixed border
Neither snow, nor rain… nor hurricane Ian. The postal service delivered my mail order daylilies from Ladybug Daylily farm in central Florida faster than I …
Mistletoe Madness from Hurricane Ian
Pasco county, in the northern part of the greater Tampa metro area, was spared the brunt of the near cat 5 hurricane Ian. We were …
Collecting tree seeds for plant propagation
While pruning my pygmy date palm, I noticed it had seeded. Which, I thought was totally weird because, earlier this summer, I saw that the …
Hang a tillandsia xerographica and a staghorn fern from a tree
A girlfriend gifted me a staghorn fern a couple of years ago. I hung it on an oak using wire. Since then, it’s had a …