Pruning is part of gardening. As the saying goes, we must prune to make things grow. So we deadhead flowers. We cut back unruly growth...

The American germander is starting to bloom with gorgeous repetitive whitish pink flower spikes. This plant is taking over the fro...

John got the gumption recently to build a screen to block one of our back utility areas, and I couldn't be happier. Though ...

The purple coneflowers, Echinacea purpurea , and firewheel, Gaillardia pulchella , are beginning to show their stuff.  I've coll...

This is the second growing season for some of the plants in our tiny front yard pocket prairie. Last year, we planted grasses like sideoa...

I have a small stand of  Texas blue grass , Poa arachnifera , and it is just amazing right now. If I wasn't such a fan of biodiversit...