It's been a hard season for the garden. A few weeks ago, deep in the middle of the hottest June on record, I stopped obsessing about the...

A royal flush, tonight. I won't apologize for the blur.

In my garden, there are a few plants that produce huge blooms all summer long. I like to mix them with the smaller blooms like coneflowers, ...

In my garden, Agastache Buddleia Coreopsis Datura Echinacea Foxglove Guara Helenium Inula Grandiflora Joe Pye Weed Knifonia Lirope Monarda N...

Last night, I had guests over for drinks after dinner at the new sushi restaurant here in town. The food, as always, was excellent. The comp...

Datura Two new unusual rudbeckia are blooming. This one is the returning Cherry Brandy grown from seed last year. The perennial bed has fill...

The nicotiana is starting to bloom in the fragrant bed. Datura is budding in several places around the yard. This plant is a self sown volun...

It's still 92 degrees. I feel like the daffodils, dry and crispy. It's not all bad. The butterfly bushes seem to be growing several ...

It's 45 degrees. The temperature will slowly rise to the low 60s this afternoon as the storms move in. We've got chances of thunders...

I've noticed a lack of acorns this year. Last October, I would lay in bed listening to the *thunk* *thunk* of acorns hitting my truck in...