The Obsessive Gardener

I spent the day yesterday gardening with my son. My son was looking for jobs to earn money (because we make him earn the money he gets from ...

I have always tried to convince myself and others that I didn't want to grow roses because they were so fussy, but I have been so inspir...

One of the things that I love about spring is watching my plants come up and seeing what made it through the winter. Some I have no doubt wi...

I have had a bumper crop of columbine this year. The four double "Barlow" columbine that I planted five years ago have propagated ...

Here is another waterfall. This one you can see a little of the plantings that are around it. I think that they use mostly shrubs and such a...

This was one of the very natural areas. They have planted these daffodils among the grasses next to the pond. I just thought this was very l...

A couple of weekends ago my family and I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum for the first time. We had lived just twenty minutes away...

I have never been really happy with the look of my garden. It has always seemed a little sparse, disjointed, thrown together. But this year ...

OH.MY.GOSH!! I made the most delicious sauce today! Seriously, I almost cried. It was getting late and I needed to make something for dinner...