Meadow garden at the newly opened Delaware Botanic Gardens In October 2015, I was privileged to tour the future site of the Delaware Bota...

I wrote about my father's stroke in November 2013, shortly after starting this blog, in The Roots of a Gardener . My dad passed away o...

Grasses and bananas are so different, but I love the way they both catch even the slightest breeze and dance in the wind.  It's a ple...

Indoor plants, 2016 I'm not a happy traveler; I admit it, I'm one of those people who worries whether I locked the doors or left t...

Today a piece of my soul is missing, a piece I never knew was there before a skinny, hungry cat, barely more than a kitten, found her way ...

Gardening and politics don't often cross paths, and when they do, it can get unpleasant.  I've avoided political issues in this bl...

Nothing to say right now, just a few photos of my begonias.  These are all hybrid seedlings from my breeding program, rapidly outgrowing t...