Gaia Garden

It's May 1st.  My larkspur just started to bloom, while the lanceleafed coreopsis and Missouri evening primrose started blooming a co...

I can't remember why I ordered The Practice of the Wild by Gary Snyder.  I'm sure I must have come across a recommendation to read ...

Helen Jane, the mother of one of my Clearwater friends, was the town's plant lady.  She was the only florist for many, many years,...

Yesterday we pushed over a dead, cottonless cottonwood tree that has been standing at the perimeter of the mowed area/firebreak in our f...

What did we do to celebrate Earth Day?   Well, we were working out in the yard, walking around, deciding what to plant where, when I pushed ...

For most of my life I've thought of the honeylocust ( Gleditsia triacanthos ) as a pretty but rather sterile tree, especially as far as ...

For some reason, every spring we seem to have a pair of blue-winged teal that visit us for a week or so on their way north.  Their visit ...

I am a firm believer in hand weeding, when possible.  When I weed, I see my garden up close and personal, in a way that I almost never do ot...

...planet whose weather is disrupted.  Last night, the mid-section of the country got to experience one of the increasingly severe weather e...

Today is Potting Day for the Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardeners.  It starts in an hour, meaning I need to leave in about 30 minutes....

It's the time of year when I find myself reciting my weeding mantra over and over, sometimes even in my sleep, "A year of seed equa...

Yellow mud turtle, that is.  Kinosternon flavescens . On Wednesday, March 28th, during the one leisurely walk that the boys and I have bee...

Fringed puccoon.  Doesn't that name have a wonderful, wild sound to it?  Based just on its name, Daniel Boone should have seen this flow...

Sorry for the bad paraphrase in the title, but it seems to perfectly capture my mixed feelings about this spring.  All the area plants seem ...

While I'm nervous about what an incredibly early spring this seems to be, I've decided that I might as well just go along for the ri...

It's spring and, naturally, a young (neutered) male's attentions turn to...new toys??? 1:30 a.m.  Blue's internal monitoring s...