Country Gardener

July precipitation report: We had more rain this month than in June: 6/10ths of an inch in the first week (in two showers), the same in week...

Today's excitement was a wedding party getting their pictures taken in our garden. There are a lot of wedding receptions held at the gol...

Here's some great advice about drought and lawns from Kevin Frank, a turf expert at Michigan State University. Many homeowners choose no...

Here's a photo of my four-square garden taken earlier this month, which shows a panorama of the entire garden just after the boxwoods we...

My semi-circular border I haven't taken as many garden pictures this year, perhaps because I'm a bit demoralized by drought - it...

We were off on holiday last week, so it was nice not to worry about rain, or lack thereof. It did rain here twice on Thursday for a total of...

Today's rain was just 2/10ths of an inch. But maybe things will start looking up: at least there are some more showers in the forecast f...

If you're a weather geek like me, and you live in Ontario, you may be interested in the link below. It takes you to a summary of precipa...

We had another thundershower tonight, and unexpectedly this one gave us some rain. I had invited my neighbor over for dinner, and just as we...

This was the quote of the day on my personalized Google page: The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either ...