Looking good right now
How is it already mid-May? Spring is almost over (by my plant phenological standards) and summer is lurking. Spring has always been my favorite time…
Sleuthing in the garden-rhododendrons
Gardening involves a lot of disappointments (I promise I will end on something less depressing!). You have visions of how well a plant will do…
South stream garden part 2
It is shaping up to be an extremely dry year, I'm afraid. After last year's massive forest fires that darkened our skies for weeks and…
Recovery from the ice storm
So, here we are 2.5 months after the storm. How are things looking now? This is the South Stream Garden, where most of the damage…
The ice storm – part 3
One last picture of the ice storm damage. This was a 30 foot tall black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa) snapped by the ice storm. I planted…