My Cyclamen plant seems to like the cooler temperatures we've been having. Its foliage looks darker and the stems are beginning to sta...

My Avocado plant seems to have just shot up taller and taller this summer. I was considering pinching out its top to encourage branching...

I have moved this little Pear grown from a seed out of its pot and into an SIP. We'll see how it does...

Another crawly critter my kid recently caught. Brown preying mantis. It's currently living in the mesh-sided bug house, for just a few d...

My older daughter caught this insect in the yard. It's wings look just like a green leaf- down to the veins and blemish spots. It is p...

Some of my herbs are blooming. The Oregano has tiny delicate pinkish-purple flowers. I've been letting the Stevia plant grow bigger...

I think of my Croton, with its red-and-gold veined leaves, as the "fire plant." It's actually three plants growing in one po...

I've been cutting flowers from the garden, a few small vases full of orange Tithonias. In one I added the best pink Cosmos - there...

The chrysalis that I failed to photograph the other day hatched out! I realized before it did that it wasn't a monarch after all; the mo...

The most abundant edible in my garden right now is hot Peppers! And I don't even eat them, ha ha. I picked all these on one day las...

I was so afraid that my little Lilac seedling had seen its last. Several weeks ago I noticed all the foliage was gone; some critter ate al...

My little Creeping Charlie cutting seems a bit happier in its small SIP container. It doesn't look much different yet but if you get c...

We have found two very cool-looking critters in the garden this past week including this huge fat green caterpillar, with yellow accented ...

My mock strawberry-turned-houseplant seems to have adjusted well to being indoors in a plastic SIP. It's even growing some new leaves....

The garden surprised me a little. It's been so neglected I wasn't expecting much of the Beets and Carrots but pulled all the red g...

Chard is doing really well now that the weather has cooled off a bit. I'm trying out new dishes with it. This is a beans-and-greens di...

My youngest crepe myrtle tree bloomed this summer- and its flowers are a different color (one not common in the neighborhood either- most of...

I wasn't hoping much of it, but the Mock Strawberry plant I uprooted as a weed and stuck in a pot recovered marvelously. It initially go...