It is fall, the time I start looking back at pictures, evaluating how the garden did this year, and think about what I want to do next. I...

When I started seriously gardening in my teens, all I grew was roses. I wanted those huge, opulent, complex, fragrant flowers. I would flip ...

Before I opened this book I knew two things: It would be beautiful, and it would be fun. Anyone who has read Ivette's blog, The Germina...

I love winter. I love snow. A lot. This is one of the reasons why.

Genevieve is asking garden bloggers to list their top 5 gardening books -- just in time for winter book season ! Here is my list:  Th...

I've talked about the wildflowers along my daily bicycle commute before . Well, right now they are putting on quite a show again. Black ...

The beds infront of my house are in their second year, and things are starting to come together. I'm particularly fond of this section a...

I love this hell-strip planting on street with otherwise completely uninteresting front lawns. It is simply masses of violets (why do some p...

My friend Virginia sent me photos the other day of a planting we did two years ago at the Ohio State Learning Gardens . When we were both s...

The snow is finally melting, and all of us Northern gardeners are giddy with joy, and we're all posting about the very same set of plant...

I apologize for the truly wretched quality of this picture, but I can't resist sharing it: Do you see the little topiary bear, his arm...

This is a picture of yard of a house I walked past in Shikoku, Japan while visiting my friend Reiko's family: Like so many Japanese gar...

A lot of the pictures I take are of ideas: Bits of design, combinations of plants -- cool stuff I want to remember to play with in my own ga...

As I have been talking about , I have a goal of redesigning the inside of my house as a garden. This past weekend, I tackled the long wind...

Here is a time line of the events leading up to today's post. (photos are of most of the windows in my house. The reason for that will b...

I just got back from 4 days in chicago for an incredibly awsome  conference on Darwin (on the off chance that any of you are evolutionary b...