Gardendaze

As we ease further into autumn, we approach Halloween or All Hallow’s Eve.

If you are a retailer, of course, candy and costumes have literally been available for months. I always wonder about Halloween candy in July. People surely don...

This is my lawn and just a bit of my driveway right now. What you’re not seeing is all the acorns under these leaves.

We’re having a “mast” year for our white oaks. What that means is that the white oak trees (but not the red oaks this...

This was how the pond appeared before I started hunting around for my pump on Saturday.

Somehow, the lid of the pump box had gotten separated from the pump–and I feared everything was floating around beneath all these water lettuces and hyaci...

Every year this time, I start to see posts about “get the cardboard boxes ready, it’s time to put the Christmas cactus in the dark. “

These posts try to convince us that we have to cover our plants with ...