Gaia Garden

Have you ever read Stanley Kunitz's The Wild Braid ?  If you haven't, you should.  It's a marvelous meditation on the intersecti...

I'm not normally the sort of gardener who obsesses over clashing colors in my flower beds.  In fact, I'm rather an "anything go...

A dear friend of ours loves southern magnolias and has tried to grow them in her suburban Chicago yard.  She fell in love with the species m...

At the beginning of June, we will have lived in this house for 3 years, although I didn't start gardening in the yard until the fall of ...

About a week ago I took a deep breath and plunged into a new "platform" for me:  a Nextdoor neighborhood group I've belonged t...

A hawk, a sapsucker, and a squirrel went into a yard and ... found it appealing enough to stay for a while.  There is no punchline to this...

Given that Valentine's Day just sailed by, it seems a little early for spring to have arrived, but here in the panhandle of Florida, all...