Country Gardener

Flowers seem to be a week or two late this year. We've had very cool temperatures, and lots of rain. The past two nights have gone down ...

Getting ready for a group garden tour is bit a like preparing for the opening night of a play. You want everything to be perfect, or at leas...

Since we moved here 11 years ago, our summers have been dominated by drought. Indeed, the worst drought in 50 years plagued gardeners and f...

Lewisia redivia in the wild - growing in dark basalt rock When my husband John started rock gardening , one of the attractions was to grow ...

We've had a lot of rain this week. More flooding down at the creek today, as we got our second inch in as many days, and the ground was ...

I had been hoping for rain to give us some relief from a dry couple of weeks, and our current heat wave. Well, it rained, and how! Creek ban...

The most colorful spot in June - John's rock garden Mmmmm, it really smells sweet here right now, particularly in the evenings. At the s...

They look pretty cute, these chipmunks, but they are systematically clearing my garden of all of its crocus and tulip bulbs. I keep finding ...

It's no wonder my garden helpers call me eagle eyes. Last week while looking out the kitchen window, I noticed something strange on a cr...

This is how one part of the garden looked this afternoon. We had three nights of serious frosts over the holiday weekend, and the Sugar Tyme...