Country Gardener

Eupatorium tucked in amongst Rudbeckia 'Herbstsonne, Karl Foerster feather reed grass and fountain grass Eupatorium is one of my favori...

Back in July, this pumpkin-like mystery vine started to grow on our compost pile. It has now covered it entirely, plus our leaf mold pile, a...

On Sunday morning I finally got very lucky with a butterfly. This Monarch was extremely co-operative and let me shoot 30 pictures of it. It...

Barn swallow babies that is. This season, the swallows that built their nest in the garage part of our barn decided to have a second family....

That's what the man from the tree service said about the big limb that tore off and got hung-up in the tree after Tuesday's thunders...

My tomato and garlic harvest last September If you or someone you know is a star at growing veggies, you might be interested in a photo ...

We had another thunderstorm this afternoon: half an inch. The lawn seems to need mowing every four days, which is astounding this time of ye...

We have now have trimmed the boxwoods, edged the lawn around the four-square garden, and renewed the mulch. It looks fabulous, but I'm e...

Well, so much is in bloom now, it's hard to choose. A lot of DYCs (damned yellow composites), as garden writer Wayne Winterowd likes to...

Our boxwood hedge with a section trimmed On our 10 acres this summer, I'm taking care of all the maintenance myself with one main hel...