Country Gardener

A while back I wrote about the black slate fountain that my husband created. Since it's been running we've been amused to see that ...

View from patio on our back hill - note brown lawn in background As many others were contending with record rainfall and flooding, we staye...

One of my sisters lives in Algonquin, Illinois, near Chicago. In constrast to our never-ending drought, she reports: Crazy rain – we are no...

Click on the radar map to view bigger 4:30 a.m.: Wake to thunder and lightning and then finally some rain falling around 5 a.m. I take a cu...

Today I actually thought I was losing it. My impression of the last few days was that I hadn't watered a lot, and so I didn't bother...

Click on picture to view bigger size I don't live by gardening alone, and so I follow quite a few blogs that have nothing to do with g...

Precipitation Compared to Historical Distribution (Ontario Region) Map: Agriculture Canada (See key below) Featured comment: T Gordon said....

It's record dry, but the beds look as colorful as ever. The picture here is of a bed we call the "well bed" (because that'...

We have a gravel driveway, which, as anyone who has one knows, is a great incubator for weeds. So whenever my husband or I spot green stuff ...

I start the morning off by taking some pictures of the front garden, which is full of grasses and Russian sage. This picture, I take from th...