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Today, 92 years after the first world was ended we remember all who gave their life for our freedom.

And my garden is just loving it. Lapping up all that moisture in the air. In preparation for another November 80 degree day. But change is o...

I still have a few summer crops producing well. Patty pan squash started 6 weeks ago, Juliet tomatoes seeded themselves and are a tremendous...

Looking up, through the leaves, into the clear blue Saturday sky. But these leaves won't be falling this year. They are part of a metal...

Earlier this week we bid farewell to 2 large vitex trees. Today it was the turn of the Celosia spicata. Some of the plants were over 6' ...

Few plants are more troublesome to remove than the vitex. Just ask David. This is the second one he has removed this week. The first one, by...

What could be better for an indoor arrangement, in the fall, than dried seed heads. In this wooden vase I have poppy, garlic chives, nigella...

This is not the only plant to surprise us with an unusual bloom time. The mock orange, Philadelphus coranarius 'Natchez' is bloomin...

Once in a while I do something completely out of character. Pull things out or rather give permission for someone to pull things out or cut ...

Of course Keats did not have Texas in mind when he wrote his poem, To Autumn. Nevertheless, the change of season comes to gardens in the so...