Garden art

Tim and Barbara’s carefree artist garden

A nearly native drought tolerant garden Tim and Barbara Fruehe came into the True Value Garden Center with a list…

12 years ago

Junk garden project-Dutch door

Saturday- Hmmm, Tractor Man gone for the day?  Having coffee and wondering WHAT to do today. I love having a…

13 years ago

Happy Valentine’s to my friends

 "Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week…

13 years ago

The old goat shed

In 2000, we found and bought 7 acres on the side of a hill in a small town south of Yosemite.…

13 years ago

The ordinary and the amazing birdbath

Birdbath love ♥ As the garden flower color takes a back seat here in the Foothills, the wildlife have become…

13 years ago

Leaf casting the Indian Rhubarb

How to do a leaf-casting! A serendipitous discovery of a large leaf in a mountain stream, led me to try…

13 years ago

September First views

First Views is a meme that Town Mouse started to show seasonal view of larger areas of your garden, rather…

13 years ago

Hypertufa workshop…fun!

 Last month, my friend, Cheryl and I, committed to giving a workshop to the garden club on a subject we were…

13 years ago

How to make Hypertufa Troughs

What are hypertufa troughs? Hypertufa (pronounced hyper-toofa) is a mixture of peat moss, perlite, cement and water. Old stone watering troughs…

13 years ago

Seeing beauty in numbers

'We are guided by nature in composition' Bartók Down from the top where he goes to get the paper, my…

13 years ago

In which, I clean up my potting bench

The difference between trash and junk I posted a picture of my terribly messy potting bench area on my FB page,…

13 years ago