Country Gardener

We had torrential rains over the weekend: many separate waves of severe thunderstorms delivered 1.75 inches of rain on both Saturday and Su...

I have been meaning to put a slide show of my garden into this blog for a long time, but gardening always seems to get in the way. Now Helen...

Our meadow is beginning to come into bloom. Here are the first flowers: Monarda didyma - I love their soft color and interesting shape Rudb...

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...