Letting nature in by getting immersed in the immediate.

I don't mean to complain and whine. It's just that I'm so good at it.

Helpful advice for growing chilies.

Blossom end rot tries to crush my naive hopes for a trouble-free harvest.

They're happy little butterflies, but maybe they have a dark side?

Adding a raised bed for growing chilies meant confronting the swamp grass.

The Tree Guy tried to pin this one on me. I’m not buying it.

Welcome to the Blind Pig edition of Schiddygarden.

Sometimes a great notion simply doesn’t fly.

It's the scariest time of year in our garden.

That burst of sound cracks open the doldrums of winter with its insistence of spring.

How to grow incredible camellias without even trying. At all.

Ivy grows like crazy. What's not to like?

Having breakfast outside in the sun is one of humankind’s most rewarding experiences .

Planting a completely whacked-out flower bed that defies common sense.

I don’t particularly care for cabbages and radishes, but I’m a sucker for alliteration.

If you don't plant Leontodon, they will come anyway.

Is too much of a good thing a bad thing?

A timely gift of beautiful flowers put my larcenous impulses on hold.

Hellebores, you are woefully narcissistic and you can never get enough.