A Prairie Garden Journal 2006 That’s right, perennials aren’t just for flower gardens, anymore. Some perennials are also great plants for your landscape. Certain perennials offer as much year around interest as shrubs, and are often much easier to grow successfully in Wyobraska landscapes, so my advice is–get those... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2006 Every generation develops its own word to convey a strong expression of pleasure or approval. “Cool” may actually have served two generations—one in the 1950’s and another in the 1990’s—although in the 1990’s incarnation it was properly spoken with a different inflection than in... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 I am often asked if I have favorite plants, and I can answer without reservation that I don’t. That said, I do have a list of plants, or more precisely a list of types of plants that I think are essential to a successful Wyobraska landscape. These are plants that meet two criteria—1. they... 

strong>A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 We hear a lot about the plants that are struggling and declining as a result of what appears to be consistently warmer summertime temperatures, and I will admit to having been more on the lookout for plants that are suffering from the heat in recent weeks. Click to read full article  Read More →

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Let me say right now that I claim no expertise on the local singles scene. But I do know something about the local garden center scene, and have watched a lot of gardeners pick up beautiful blooming perennials that will not look nearly so good the next morning—in a gardening sense, that is.... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 No, they’re not the three kinds of adolescent slasher movies showing at the Monument Mall this weekend, it’s how you select your flower and foliage plants to get those dramatic flower-filled planters, pots, and containers that you’ve been seeing in catalogues and magazines all winter. Click... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Que serra serra plants fall into two main categories—those that come out of dormancy early, but whose early spring foliage can handle at least the cold of a two-dog night—somewhere between 15 and 20 degrees by my reckoning. This group of plants includes Click to read full article  Read More →

A Prairie Garden Journal 2007 Your seventh grade math teacher was right, after all. Fractions are important. I am aware that bringing up the subject of fractions may cause some readers to have a recurrence of painful and now long-suppressed classroom experiences. So if you are one of those people who are still discussing... 

A Prairie Garden Journal 2008 Warm, sunny days, cool evening air heavy with the musty scent of ripening corn and clover, pink-ripe watermelons, buckets of tomatoes, the first red-tinged apples from the orchard, and the evening symphonies of crickets and cicadas. Perhaps its just the shorter days, but life always seems to...