Froggy Went a Courtin’ for Spring
I am sitting in our back porch on my first official visit of 2023. A half-dozen frogs have broken into the porch over the winter. One is reading, two [...]
I am sitting in our back porch on my first official visit of 2023. A half-dozen frogs have broken into the porch over the winter. One is reading, two [...]
Maybe 20 years ago while visiting family in Mississippi I got word of a guy, somewhat of a local character, who had a greenhouse for sale. The guy, the story [...]
This is to connect our Southern Indiana farmhouse, built in 1860, to England’s famed RHS Garden Wisley, founded in 1878, to the legendary horticulturist Mike Dirr, his age doesn’t matter, [...]
I know there is a children’s garden book here. Working title: “The Little Daylily That Could.” The based-on-a-true-life-tale would begin in a former Southern Indiana nursery where the owner, [...]
If pushed to admit it, and without ranting too much, autumn is my favorite gardening season, maybe about two horticulture notches ahead of spring. It is a close call; [...]
With plant seeds now being around for roughly 365 million years – beginning about the time life first crawled out of the ocean to give dry land a try—my steady [...]
We all deal with empty nests at some point in our lives. In the world of robins, that book opens as they create their nests in stages requiring hundreds [...]
Bob Hill is back and overcome by impulse. Problem No. 1 was I left my reading glasses in the car. Problem No. 2 was I was out foraging box-store garden [...]
Bob Hill returns after an epic shopping spree. Enchantment overtakes him. Few of us tillers of the soil plan on visiting the same [...]
Mid-May planting fever. Eight already full acres and an old golf cart from which to explore. Where to put what? Again. There is no path least taken. They've all been [...]
High on a Hill in Utica, Indiana A few very random thoughts while sitting in a screened-in back porch in Utica Indiana in early April of 2020 while [...]