piedmont plots

 It's been four years (almost to the day) since I got the nerve to sign up for a blogger account. Considering how much has changed sinc...

I've been busy these last few weeks, both with my job as a research administrator at Duke and taking care of my own home yarden. Thankfu...

  'Kim's Knee-High' purple coneflower, photograph courtesy of Niche Gardens This month's Piedmont Pick is in partnership...

. Finch plants  for sale and pickup at Club Blvd. Elementary's first annual blueberry bush fundraiser, held two weeks ago... Finch...

this free landscape design has been brought to you by Morning Coffee and a distracted / freelance / part-time landscape designer.....in bus...

I took this picture last week. It was the last warm day of a warm spell but you could feel the air changing as a front was moving in. I gues...

I've been a sloppy blogger since January. First, I misspelled February in one of my post titles and left it there for weeks. No one real...

I am selling both of these for February's Piedmont Pick. See this link for details.  Pictured below are a few of the terrariums that I ...

wintersweet- Sarah P. Duke Gardens crocus- Sarah P. Duke Gardens winter jasmine- West Campus yellow berried nandina- Sarah ...

That is probably one of the five best quotes I have ever read in a garden article. In case you missed Thursday's Home and Garden secti...

 Japanese Cedar ( Cryptomeria Japonica 'Globosa') Sarah P. Duke Gardens terraces I have been in hibernation mode for the last m...

I am culling and sorting and deleting odd pictures from 2010. I couldn't resist posting some of my favorites that do not easily fit into...

Dear Santa, If you are looking for ideas for me, here are four: Please have your elves build me a tool shed from shipping pallets. My p...

4:15pm on Circuit Drive, one day after the Winter Solstice

  This month's Piedmont Pick keeps you indoors. Given the way winter has come on strong, that is a good thing. If you live in or near...

Since last Friday we have seen the first night below 20 degrees, a first snowfall, and the first seed catalog in the mail...It feels like J...

....there is a new website to check out.  Purple Roost is a recently launched business designed to take care of your flock while you are aw...

Here is a hollyhock leaf. It's been swelling in size ever since I stuck the seedling in the ground during one of our hot months (I need ...