An Iowa Garden

With surprising (to me) frequency I get requests to use pictures from this old blog. It is even more of a surprise to me how these various r...

Early winter, and the Holiday Season have arrived in the midst of our little valley like some unbidden and not totally welcome presence. The...

Every story has a beginning; in the case of this modest garden blog it was in February of 2005, with the bloom of the first snowdrop of t...

I always wonder about gardeners who completely devote their garden to one type of plant; they have one great fanfare of flowering, then a l...

When the puttyroot orchids bloom in the woods, I know it is time to watch for new fawns, and this year has not been a disappointment. A few...

Pinellias, somewhat horticulturally reclusive cousins to jack in the pulpits, are among my favorites in our garden. This is Pinellia 'P...

Every garden is a bit hit or miss; two things that have recently worked out well here are, at top, sinking a plastic tub in the ground to ...