I am sharing with you a few of my favorite sunflower close-up flower photographs this week. Here is one that brightens up my garden summer and into early fall... Sunflower  It is hard to find a flower that grows so large…

The dog days of summer have arrived, which means that I spend most of my time indoors.  So, I spend time on my garden writing, knitting, trying new recipes and catching up on reading some great books.   I also decided to tackle…

Life has been quite busy, which has kept me out of the garden much of the time. Of course, the with the hot temperatures of summer, I probably wouldn't be spending a lot of time outdoors, regardless of how busy I have been. I did spend…

Do you enjoy going out into the garden in summer? I don't! I admit to sometimes neglecting my garden when the temperatures go above the century mark.  My aversion to gardening in a furnace is one of the reasons that I like to…

I am always on the lookout for new ways to display annual flowers.  I'll do anything from transforming old, antiques into planters to using brightly-colored containers. On a recent visit to the Green Bay Botanical Gardens in Wisconsin,…

Do you like red yucca (Hesperaloe parvifolia)? Landscapes throughout the desert southwest come alive in spring and early summer as the coral-colored blooms of red yucca burst forth. There are a few reasons that this succulent is a…

Do you have a list of favorite plants for your Southwestern garden? I do. Today, I'd like to share with you about one of my favorite shrubs, desert ruellia (Ruellia peninsularis). It has beautiful, light-green foliage…

Do you have friends with whom you share a common interest?I do.My friend and fellow blogger, Amy Andrychowicz of Get Busy Gardening loves gardening as much as I do.  Amy and I have spent time together in Arizona and later in…

It's a beautiful summer day outside, yet my mind is on fall and Halloween? Why? Because, this is what I discovered growing in my vegetable garden this morning... Okay, maybe you cannot see it yet, but once you part the leaves... You…