Chasing the Beauty of Red Maples in Kansas

Red Maple Goodness by Clearly Ambiguous

Fall in Kansas wouldn’t be fall without the red, yellow, and orange of maple leaves dancing in the sunshine, swirling, gusting, and drifting to set the ground on fire. Maples in Eastern Kansas include red maple Acer rubrum, silver maple Acer saccharinum, and sugar maple Acer saccharum. Sugar maple [...]

Kansas Fall

Eastern Chipmunk by Gilles Gonthier

It’s time to prepare for winter. At least the chipmunks and squirrels in my back yard think so. This year the white oak tree has produced a massive crop of acorns – I’ve never seen it produce so many. But until last Friday the animals completely ignored the acorns, letting [...]

Arizona Garden

Bright Orange Nasturtium by Audreyjm529

A month or so a go I received a reader question which went something like this: “I have a brown thumb. What can I grow in my Arizona garden.” From, Melissa in the Desert.

Melissa, I’m happy to report that there are lots and lots of things you can grow in [...]

Fall Vegetables

Wordless Wednesday

Life is Amazing!

And full of surprises! I went out this morning to water my garden and was totally surprised to find that over half of the area I planted on just Tuesday already has germinated seedlings growing! I’ve never had germination like this with spring planting; I expected to have to wait around another week to see [...]