• Dahlias and Tomatoes

    If you gather sunshine, the smell of dirt and the essence of summer into a mixing bowl and tap it with a magic wand, I am positive a tomato would be the outcome. A fresh grown tomato cannot be imitated and proof of that is found in grocery stores in the dead of winter. Forget…

  • Garden Projects Take Root – Part 1

    I love gardening, but unfortunately my projects this year have taken a long time to take root. Between work, end of the school year, baseball, soccer and altogether not so great weather here in West Michigan, my garden is on the slow track to blooming. I’m happy to say that over last weekend I was…

  • A Living Fence In The Fishbowl

    My back yard is HOT. I mean, really, really, hot. All plants are classified as shade, part shade and/or full sun. They need to come up with a new category for outdoors spaces like my back yard….bloody hot. It also gets pretty moist back there because  I think the developer of the neighborhood hired 14…

  • “Go Random Stranger, Go!”

    Last Thursday morning one of my besties called me at around 7:30am. I answered right away thinking it had to be an emergency and it was….she had an idea. The conversation went something like this: BF: You wanna run the River Bank on Saturday? Me: 10k? BF: No Me: Not the 5k. BF: Nope. Me:…

  • Life in the Landscape Beds

    I love hard work, but I have to admit I loathe edging the landscape beds. However, behind every dreaded chore there is the opportunity to see things up close and personal that you normally wouldn’t see while sipping cocktails in comfort on the patio. While edging one of my many landscape beds, I was leaning…

  • A Dog, a Chipmunk and the Tulips That Will Never Be

    Tulips are beautiful. I absolutely LOVE tulips. We’ve had an abnormally late start to spring, so not much more than my daffodils and crocus are blooming right now. Considering today is 82 degrees, I think spring took so long to show up, summer decided she was done waiting around for that diva and stole the…

  • What I Loved About Winter

    Based on the last couple of posts, I maybe have been too hard on winter. Maybe. Or maybe I’m just saying that because it was finally warm today and I’m feeling less bitter about winter lasting until the final week of April. Either way, I wanted to share a visual of what I loved most…

  • Forcing Spring

    It’s been a really, really long winter here in West Michigan. Too long. Winter is lingering so long that I think we deserve summer until November. It has seemed like an endless winter, but that didn’t stop me from starting my spring planting indoors. I’ve heard begonias are fickle and difficult to grow. Fortunately, Longfield…

  • For the Love of Gardening

    About the same time I originally started this blog, my life took a totally expected, but still challenging, detour. Since that time, I’ve let the things I love lapse. I  regained my balance  (as balanced as possible…but still wobbly) and I’ve realized that no matter what happens in life, everyone I love is healthy and…

  • Autumn Renewal

    Most people consider spring the season of renewal, but I’ve always considered autumn the season that the red carpet is rolled out for better things to come. This is especially true in the garden. Fall is the time to prepare the dirt, put to rest last garden season’s blunders and build on past successes. The…

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