Join I grow a number of different flowers and plants in my garden, but you’ve probably guessed by now (if you’re a regular reader) that there’s more roses than any other type of plant. Having said that I do enjoy my more unusual flowers like my Black Hollyhocks: This picture doesn’t do this large open flower [...]

Wordless Wednesday My Chicago Peace rose is blooming and it’s absolutely gorgeous. It’s putting on a fine show with it’s large blooms and multiple petals. It’s a very full flower at approximately five inches in diameter and at least three inches in height. You’d only need two or three of them to make a small bouquet.

Join Chris and I took our puppy over to SunnyBrook Park yesterday so that she could see the horses they keep there. While we were in the huge park we took a walk along a nice stream and Midnight, her water loving self, had to jump in the water! I stayed on the bank and wandered around [...]

There are many benefits to composting your household wastes like kitchen scraps, leaves, grass clippings and so on. One of the main benefits is that you can use the compost that you’ve created on your own garden or perhaps your lawn if you don’t have a garden. Our plants and trees can gain much needed [...]

Are you worried about the pesticides that might be contaminating the fruits and vegetables that you eat? If you are, you’re in luck. The Environmental Working Group has come out with a list of 45 fruits and vegetables ranked according to the level of pesticide contamination. The results were based on U.S. Food and [...]

Join This lovely peach colored flower is growing within the asters that I planted in June. I think it’s an Aster as well, but it’s quite a bit different than all of the rest of the asters that I’m growing. It seems like my asters are blooming earlier this year. I guess that’s due all [...]

Ah …. I’m sitting here in my backyard at the patio table enjoying this beautiful day while surrounded by the beauty and lovely scent of my garden. I couldn’t ask for anything better! My husband is here beside me reading a magazine while we both keep an eye on our almost year old Labrador retriever. Midnight, our [...]

Join Cleomes are strange looking flowers. They grow on long stocks and bloom as they grow. They have long spidery things that stick out all around the blooms giving them their strange look. I plant these flowers along the back edge of my garden. They grow to approximately 4 feet tall so they help screen me [...]

I really don’t know how the majority of my roses and flowers manage to stay mostly intact with all the rain and storms we’ve had this summer. We just had a big rain and hail storm and yes there are petals littering the ground around my flower beds, but there are still a lot of flowers [...]

Can you believe this? You know my lovely planted front boulevard? Well the other day when I was outside with my Lab puppy I took a moment to survey the garden. Much to my astonishment I saw that one of my Dahlias was lying flat on the ground. I took the puppy back [...]