The last twelve months have flown by, hardly time to post to the blog what with all the twitter twaddle and facebook folies to constantly u...

April 29th 2010 - after a cold and snowy winter we've had a warm and rainy couple of months, which means the azaleas are blooming a coup...

A touch of bright orangey-red to brighten your day while outside the Sound pounds the beach and the rain clouds glower

Is that where snails come from? If anthropomorphic is attributing human qualities to the non-human, what is ascribing animal-like attributes...

Pink and Yellow Peony. Beautiful, no? Here's something I bet you didn't know about pink and yellow: they do not "go together...

the weekend has had... a little of this a limited amount of that one of these... and a lot of...

Gorgeous red peony in my neighbor's yard (mine are smaller, later, pink and white). Ruby coloured crimped petals with a garland of gold ...

Haven't done one of these in a while but as I'm lacking any inspiration for anything today I present to you the best bloom from The ...

Part of yesterday's Big Day of Fun. Click'em to embiggen.

Happy Monday morning!

Living out in the alternate universe of the Incorporated Village doesn't mean you don't have to suffer spray-painted graffiti all ov...

Let's see what's doing well in the yard this back end of summer The impatiens continue to pop up all over the yard, some where I had...

It's not been the best summer here on Long Island. It was too cold to swim in the pool on Memorial Day, too rainy on July 4th and and no...

Proof, if any were needed, that 2007-2008 has been a weird weather year on Long Island. This hibiscus, usually treated as an annual here, wa...

There are hundreds of species of Iris and they one of the most recognised garden plants. Not only beautiful but useful too, the dried rhizom...

There's a rich blue hydrangea at the east side of the yard that blooms throughout the summer. In front used to be a patch of lawn 4'...

I try not to play favorites with my plants but this Hibiscus and its two siblings have bloomed triumphantly since I bought them home a coup...

I think I got the answer to what would happen when Mozilla attempted to set a Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in 24 ...

Or as I named this jpeg file: AntonPeony . Now doesn't that sound like a character from a novel? Anton Peony, debonair designer...

Pink Pink Pinks. I couldn't resist this Dianthus at the nursery last weekend. The combination of two-tone bright pink flowers and bluey-...