Gaia Garden

One of my simple pleasures in spring is sexing the cottonwoods I see as I drive. (Yes, I know I'm weird.) Only female cottonwoods produc...

Buried in a small article in the paper this morning was a very sad news article: monarch butterfly populations have declined to their lowest...

I'm starting to reap the benefits of last fall's frenzied rush to get my heirloom bulbs in the ground. The first of the heirloom bul...

With snow on the way tomorrow, I gambled and decided to clean off the remnants of last year's growth from the front garden bed. It's...

I was reading through this spring's issue of OnEarth from the Natural Resource Defense Council over the weekend and came across an envi...

Sometimes I feel like a huge imposter when I call myself a Master Gardener. This afternoon is definitely one of those times.... You see, la...

There are certain times of the year that beg to be recognized for the natural energy pulsing through them, and this feels like one of those ...

In an Organic Gardening magazine I was thumbing through recently, I came across the following statistic: If a single aphid lived her full ...

I've been a bad blogger. A very bad blogger. It's been almost 6 months since I last posted. For better or for worse, though, I'm...

At last we're getting to the goldenrods that are currently in bloom. The classic one is Canada goldenrod, Solidago canadensis . It's...

I warned you that I love goldenrod and would be posting more about it. Well, this is that dreaded post...because now is goldenrod season. In...

Prairiewolf and I actually found a mythical creature the other day...and I have a photo to prove it. All our lives, we have found adult box...

I'm reading William Least Heat-Moon's latest book, Roads to Quoz . Normally I wait until I finish a book before I do a "book r...

When we left off our last post, we had introduced a dead monarch butterfly at the base of a Black Adder Agastache and at least one wheel bug...

In my front flower garden, I've been evolving a policy of "natives only." I'm not completely sure why I picked that bed to...

It's the month of tallgrass lengthening. The big bluestem ( Andropogon gerardii ) has shot up and its flowers are open on the tall spike...

So that leaves us with the squash, the potatoes and onions. The squash is actually a summer squash called Costata Romanesca. I planted all o...

Continuing around the tabletop display, the next tomato to the right is Old Virginia. This is another new variety for us. We have 2 vines pl...

I'm having a grand time taste-testing all of the different vegetable varieties we've grown this summer. There are several new ones a...

While shopping at an estate sale last week, I noticed this little stone bench almost hiding in the ivy. It wasn't priced, but I asked an...