We’ve had some gloriously warm days and the green is returning. The forest is slowly waking up and full sap trucks are running up and down the road. I love…

A long time ago I promised to never, ever grow anything that needed dug up because it couldn’t hang with our winter temps…. the dahlias finally won me over though.…

The foxglove are in full swing. Last fall my friend Liz gave me a bucket full of foxglove babies and I tucked them in just before our first frost. This…

Things in bloom…. For the 400+ daffodil bulbs we planted last year, I only planted 40 tulips. Why? Everything wants to eat them. I might do a bed inside the…

Remember all those bulbs we planted last fall? The magic has begun, here are a few of my very favorites….. Photos of single flowers top to bottom: I never really…

Three weeks until the wedding. There’s a million chores to do and I’m short on words, but the pictures say it all anyhow. A late August garden wander…… Remind me…

The dye garden is popping with dyer’s coreopsis and sulfur cosmos. The plants are so tall they are threatening to topple over and I realize I need to up my…

The sunflowers are really starting to show off. A few are double my height easily, I’ll try to get a picture of the really tall ones as they start to…

Late spring blooms (technically) since it’s before the official beginning of summer. The peonies are showing off despite the constant rain and the yellow irises we planted last year are…

Last fall the girls helped me plant a couple hundred bulbs with me. I picked some deer resistant + naturalizing bulbs so we could plant them down beyond the garden.…