heirloom gardener

One of my goals as a gardener is to have year-round color . I'm editing the Long Border for fall color now. I originally conceived of t...

Way back in May, I wrote about my eight year old son's preparing and planting the seed potatoes in our raised vegetable beds . After mo...

As a follow-up to my September Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day post , here are some additional pictures of those beautiful dahlias.

These annual zinnias are some of my children's favorite flowers in the garden. As you can see, they come in a wide array of bright, happ...

As a follow-up to my prior post of the beautiful Swallowtail butterfly , the fennel in the pot on my deck is now covered with these attracti...

I've been reading for over a year now about the decline in the global bee population. This season, there was even a noticeable decrease ...

As a follow-up to my earlier post about self-seeders , here are some additional pictures of this season's spider flowers (cleome) that b...

For the September 2008 Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day , I'm sharing with all of you one of my favorite late summer/autumn flowers--dahli...

As a follow-up to my prior post about the monarch caterpillars we have been enjoying and the chrysalis we found of our deck , my five year o...

One of my favorite things about the June-November time period is the joy of shopping at our local farmers' markets. During these six mo...