Yesterday I was emptying soil out of a grow bag and noticed some mushrooms about to come to the surface. I'm pretty sure they were...

About 6 years ago Ellen's mother gave me cuttings of two of her African Violets. One has a very unusual compound flower with pink, white...

Rhody & ferns. Sometimes I find the neighbor cat Pillow looking back in at me., but today Pillow was too busy enjoying my favorite chair...

Meet the columnar apple trees. I learned about these when my father started buying them and planting them in big pots - filling up my...

It's hard to believe, but I have 4 apple trees in my tiny garden. One of them has been espaliered and the other three are columnar...

My father, Carl August Vesper, is surely the source of my green thumb. I introduce him here because so many of my plant stories will tie...

A trio of plants make their home under the plum tree - the nandina, the tall dark -purple iris, and a lovely little azalea.. In the...

About 5 years ago we were having some work done in our basement and realized we'd be digging up the back yard. As part of the project we...

I thought I'd start with some garden tours. The back yard is the biggest space so let's start with the view from the back porch. We used...

My husband and I joke that my role in the family is to take care of the living things. At our house they can be human, feline or...