Fall is here so that means our mailbox has been vandalized again.  This time it was a baseball bat but the pumpkin option is still a future possibility. And today was the first snow in Alpine-three weeks earlier than last year.  Although it was heavy and stuck to the ground and buildings, now that it’s [...]

I love standing at the window watching a gentle summer rain storm.  It’s so relaxing. I do NOT enjoy standing at the window watching hail the size of marbles pound my flowers and punch holes in my vegetable garden. Grrrrrr.

It’s late July and this cool, rainy summer has made everything late in my gardens.  And even though I don’t have enough energy these days to make it look perfect, there’s a lot of lovely stuff going on out there.  So enjoy what we have, right? One of the things I love in my garden [...]

“I was a writer long before I was a gardener.  Like most writers, I’m in the habit of looking for interesting characters everywhere I go.  So it’s no surprise that my garden is not the color-coordinated, beautifully designed, soothing outdoor space it could be.  It’s more like a crowded bus terminal filled with people who [...]

After the super rainy June and cool beginning of July, it is now hot and the summer flowers are really happy. Blooming now: Perennials: columbine, lavender, rose, flowering strawberry, delphinium, 2 types of salvia, 2 types of coreopsis, 2 types of veronica, 3 types of sage, 3 types of gaillardia, potentilla, aubretia, hollyhock, lamium, scabiosa, [...]

On Friday, Scott and I attended the annual Hidden Garden Benefit tour in Utah Valley.  We try to go every year, and it benefits the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center.  Each day before the tour, they have workshops that are included in your ticket price and we’ve never managed to get to one, [...]