Landscaping Don't

From the "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" Department.

What's Happening in the Garden Today?

Snowflakes that stay on my nose 
       and eyelashes,
Silver white winters that melt
       into springs,
These are a few of my 
       favorite things.

Spring, are you coming?

Eye Candy

This time lapse video is simply stunning.

Gotta Get it Garden Gear - Seed Bombs

Throw and Grow Garden Grenades for guerilla gardeners. 
Finally a way to turn those forgotten areas and municipal scrublands into a wilderness with compacted wild flower seed bombs. In about a week, ryegrass will be the first thing to grow. Buttercups and poppies will emerge around three weeks later. And you thought you didn’t have green thumb! 

Available here in packs of 3.

My Happiness Project

If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk. 
For a week, kill a pig. 
For a month, get married. 

For life, be a gardener.

- Chinese Proverb

What's Happening in the Garden Today?

This lovely couple came to visit
      in the garden today.
They didn’t stay long.
A pair of friendly puddles
       arrived later.
They also skipped town.

How NOT to plant a tree

This photo was taken in the parking lot of a supermarket. 
I’m finding it hard to breathe just looking at this. (Note to self: Do not buy produce from this store.)

He Loves Me

It's official.

Five Trees that Sound Nice in the Wind

• Aspen
• Eucalyptus
• Fig
• Magnolia
• Paper Birch

What's Happening in the Garden Today?

Though neighbors and building management may scoff at the unruly look of leaving grasses and perennials uncut for the winter, nature’s less colorful off-shoots create a habitat for small animals, seed heads that feed non-migrating birds, and an ever-changing visual painting created from the dried plants, ice, snow and even shadows.

Garden Challenge Accepted! - Part 2 of 2

The new garden was planted in the Spring of 2009 with the help of local elementary school children. This is the first garden on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II.

Garden Challenge - Part 1 of 2

In 2008, Roger Doiron started a campaign to urge the next President to grow food on the White House lawn. Click below to view his video pitch.

Sunflower Stems

Sunflower stems were once used to fill life jackets before the invention of synthetic material.

- The Curious Gardener’s Almanac