One of the vegetables I've had the most success in growing is lettuce. This is an Asian baby leaf mesclun salad mix from Renee's...

After preparing the stock pond beds this spring, I planted my first seeds and starter plants. In one bed, I planted cucumbers and beans. Th...

Hello to all of you who have stuck with me through this looong dry spell. I am grateful you didn't dump me from the blogs you follow. TH...

For the next few posts, I will share my first spring garden project earlier this year. It was quite an undertaking. We decided the best ...

Hey, everyone, I know, I know. Where the heck have I been? One word: Busy. About 9 months ago, I started working on my second book. This one...

If ever you are in Dublin, Ieland, be sure to take a long walk through St. Stephen's Green. It's a lovely 22-acre park (the second...

When I was in Europe this past spring, I was impressed with the use of flowers in landscaping and as art. In the Shelbourne Dublin at St. St...

Yes, I know I am a bit behind talking about the birth flower for August. You would think a month planted right in the middle of the hottest ...

Cool Fact of the Day When the grounds-keeping team that manages the grass field used for the World Cup in South Africa needed a fast-growing...

All the recent rain left a new theme garden on our lawn - mushrooms. These big white 'shrooms are so pale in the afternoon sun they seem...

As part of our volunteer work, Jefferson County Master Gardeners record brief radio spots on gardening. Here's one we did on Fertilizer ...

It's raining! For the past two weeks, while my friends in Nederland, Port Arthur and Beaumont have been getting relief from the long per...

It seems my recollections of shelling peas and my family’s recipe for cooking up a mess of purple hull peas was a hit (see comments below). ...

If you enjoy seeing art that uses flowers as inspiration, check out the exhibit "Blooms: Floral Art in the Stark Collections" at t...

I was excited to spot four or five ladybugs on my dill this morning. I'm not sure if that's good - because the ladybugs are feeding ...

This past week, I sat down at the kitchen table to do something I haven't done in years. I shelled peas. I grew up with a grandmother wh...

We've always been blessed with an abundance of lizards at our house. I've posted before about how their favorite place used to be on...

I'm not one of those people who scream and grab a broom when they see a spider. While I certainly don't want them crawling on me, wh...

It's Friday - Yeah! Treat yourself by taking in the 12th Annual Lotus and Bamboo Festival at Buu Mon Buddhist Temple,2701 Procter St in ...

Ah, June - the month for weddings. How fitting that the birth flower for June is the rose. Roses are considered by many to be the most perfe...

Gardening is a constant endeavor to find plants that are attractive, dependable and low-to-maintenance free. If ever a plant fit this descri...

When it comes to vines, I've had my share of learning experiences. Flowering vines are a beautiful addition to a garden, but care shoul...

Oops. When I said Olive Barn was closing, I was wrong. What I should have said is that Olive Barn's Outlet & Warehouse in Houston is...

For gardeners, the older you get, the more important it is to find the right tools. Gardening is physical labor. Digging, weeding, hoeing, p...

It seems I picked one of the driest months around to be out of town. While I was gone from mid-April to mid-May, my sweet husband tried to w...

One of the many plants I saw during my three weeks in Europe that I'm not familiar with include this colorful succulent. The yellow, ora...

There's something about yellow roses. As a young woman, I fell in love with a beautiful climbing yellow rose that spilled along a neighb...

For the past four days, before hitting the gardening duties/pleasures, I've been getting up early and sitting on the deck to enjoy a few...

I've been getting that question a lot lately. If you're a regular reader, you've no doubt noticed a looong absence of posts. The...