I don’t know about you, but I spent my weekend murdering a tree. And it felt good! The specimen in question was a black walnut. I think they call them black walnuts because calling them evil walnuts, death walnuts or… Read more ›

Let me give you my best Andy Rooney impression. Ahem… “Ever wonder why we call light red pink? We don’t call light blue or light green anything but light blue or light green, unless you are one of those fancy… Read more ›

So the legend goes that violets were created after Zeus, who is perhaps the most philandering husband ever to grace the tabloidic pages of history and myth, made love to a beautiful maiden and then changed her into a heifer… Read more ›

The Bearded Iris have arrived, and no, I am not talking about the main attraction in the freak show at the circus. Bearded Iris are among my most favorite flowers in the garden. As in, when I drive around town… Read more ›

Now that the snow has decided to take a few day hiatus (probably to some snow spa to prepare it for the last snowstorm of the season) the early spring flowers have had a chance to stretch their petals and… Read more ›

I sometimes wonder how many people in the world have a memory of mint that goes something like this… In my parent’s yard, there was a wild spot. It seemed that no amount of weed wacking, weed pulling or weed… Read more ›

The lily-of-the-valley are in full bloom. I have to admit, if there ever was a plant that could pass for being fake, lily-of-the-valley is it. No other flower I have ever grown looks and feels so much like plastic as… Read more ›

It is a surprisingly beautiful weekend here in the great land of Cleveland. While I had thought sure that winter was going to be moving in any moment, instead we have had a glorious and prolonged Indian summer. Which is… Read more ›