A Public Peony Service Announcement: What Peonies are Suppose To Look Like in the Spring

…..AANANNANANNANANNANANNANANANNANANA….. We interrupt your regularly scheduled garden blog for this important peony announcement. This is a public peony service announcement. This is not a test. The following information is meant to help keep the peony population at large safe from… Read more ›

Daffodils and Marilyn Monroe: Tragic but Beautiful

She has a daffodil beauty, but in repose her face is strangely tragic… –Edith Sitwell about Marilyn Monroe I have a confession to make. I have always had a school girl crush on Marilyn Monroe. Who wouldn’t, after all? She… Read more ›

Something I am Thankful for this Year

I am thankful I don’t live in South Africa… where they have slugs bigger than my hand!

Marsh Marigold: An Overlooked Early Spring Flower

It seems to me that as soon as a flower proves that it has no problem surviving in a particular climate, someone slaps the label “wildflower”. To we snobbish gardeners, being a wildflower is like being the trailer park beauty… Read more ›

Dog Crap Has No Business In Your Vegetable Garden.

While some people may be tiptoeing through the tulips right now, here in Cleveland, you are more likely to find people tiptoeing through the dog crap. For the past five months we have been sending our canine companions out into… Read more ›

Garden Blog Post For Sale: Give Me Stuff and I will Talk About It

Being in the industry of internet marketing, I know that stuff like this happens. You are just innocently having some fun, writing a few words, a few people come to read it and *BAM* the next thing you know people… Read more ›

Spring, Sprang, Sprung: Vernal Equinox

Light & Dark. Black & White. Yin & Yang. Ben & Jerry. Today, the world is in perfect balance with the sun spending an equal amount of time on each side of the world. Astrologically, today is the first day… Read more ›

When Starting Seeds, It Helps To Have A Clever Husband

My little seedlings have graduated from the nursery and have moved on to the paper cups. They are spreading their little true leafs and, so far, they have not caused me too much trouble. Like the good Catholic that I… Read more ›

Monet in Normandy: Cleveland Art Museum’s Current Exhibit

It was a cold but brilliant day here in Cleveland. Too cold to do any gardening, but that does not mean that I couldn’t enjoy a bit of the outdoors inside. I was given two free tickets to the Cleveland… Read more ›

Worm Crisis: The Solution is to Make Them Appitizers

I was directed to a rather odd article in the New York Times about the fact that worms will be the end of the forest as we know it, or some other some similar media derived disaster. But I know… Read more ›

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