Category Archives: gardening

Is that, since I didn’t expect these to live, based on the fact they were planted by Ian’s toy backhoe and tended by my notorious black thumb, I don’t know what any of them are.

Gonna be a bad bug year.

This plant was a gift when Ian was born. It had a couple other specimens in it when we got it, which, you’ll not be surprised to know, I’ve managed to kill in the intervening four years. But it desperately … Continue reading →

You know, given my ability to kill things at multiple stages of plant development, I hope I’m not setting him up for disappointment, but Ian is taking a gardening class for little people. There is a good reason I usually … Continue reading →