I crunched through the dried leaves on our sidewalk as I looked up to admire the glorious orange, red and yellow leaves on trees in our colorful autumn season. When I walked into our house, I picked up dried leaves from a rug. Our dogs had scampered in with leaves clinging to their fur. ...

“Are you sure?” I asked the checker at the grocery store. I couldn’t believe the cost of two small bags of groceries was over $100. “Yes, that’s right,” he said. I checked over the receipt to be sure I hadn’t been charged $20 for a can of beans by accident. “Every item ...

Working with gardeners, I get to have a lot of different conversations about gardening trends. Some of my favorites are with people about the obscure and strange trends that float around social media or topics from old wives’ tales. So, I asked a fellow gardener what their thoughts were on ...

Are there any apples on our tree this year?” my older daughter recently asked. “There are lots of ripe apples high in the tree,” my husband responded. I thought about past autumns when she and our other two kids used an apple picker to harvest apples from our Haralson tree. Our ...

When I was in high school, I used to work at a greenhouse and nursery. During my time there, I was introduced to so many different plants, but one plant that always stuck out to me was the Tiger Eyes® sumac, or referred to by its common name, the cutleaf staghorn sumac. It is one of my ...

When I work in the garden, I keep my eyes open for any fun visitors I might find. Notable visitors have been garden spiders and centipedes, not my children’s favorite. This year, I had my sights set on something they weren’t afraid to help me track down. The visitor was a swallowtail ...