Gardening under the Florida sun

A little stressful this week around the house. On Thursday our little chicky Vera come down with an upper respiratory cold. And has just bee...

With the Gulf waters all churned up, it makes for a perfect time to go hunt for fossils. (We're nerds like that.) I didn't find an...

Woohoo, my little Vera is laying eggs! (As you can tell, I'm easily amused.)

The vegetable garden is awaiting work right now, so I've just been snapping pics of my flowers in bloom around the yard. This beauty is ...

This isn't quite what you would expect with a name like Rattlesnake master . At one time, people thought it treated venomous snake bites...

Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday to You, Happy Birthday sweet Little One, Happy Birthday to You. It doesn't seem that long ago that...

LuLu and no name buff Silkie Peanut Butter is a Japanese Bantam (buff with black tail ) Cotton is a Polish (white crested black) LuLu...

Hooray!! I was finally able to get a picture of this little one on the Scorpion's-Tail. Such a beauty!!

Wow! I can't believe the girls are already four months old. It's so fun just to sit outside and watch their goofy antics. Laverne (g...

I just love my Wild Coffee plants. I've got six planted in the shade under my oak tree and they're just thriving. I particularly lik...

This is such a pretty wildflower. I picked up the seeds last year and it wasn't until this spring that I got around to planting them. I...

We had to drive over to Palmetto on Sunday and on our way back we saw a sign for the Madira Bickel Mound Archaeological Site and decided to ...

We have new critters in the house this week. Some coquina that we brought home from the beach. And a couple tadpoles that hubby got. I like ...

My eggplants and tomatillos have been looking pretty rough lately, so I pulled them up, and as you can tell by the photos it's root-knot...

The little one and I, have been enjoying our summer so far. We've been playing at the park, going to the library for their summer readin...

This article is from the current issue of Nature Conservancy.

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains....... - John Muir- May 25, 1940 - June 18, 2002

Loved by children and chickens alike. Hooray, our first sweet, tasty, watermelon!! I'm shocked at how hardy this variety is. ( I have t...

It's painfully obvious, now that Shirley and Aloe are CROWING (ALOT), that they are really Larry and Al. Ummm.......okay, that wasn'...

This little heirloom comes from Iowa and is named for the Wapsipinicon River. Wonderfully sweet and very hardy. I definitely recommend gro...

Have you ever seen such a thing ?

Yoko at 7 weeks

These are just so tiny, about grape size. I'm growing mine in a good sized terra cotta pot. They seem to like this method better than be...