Believe it or not, the madman loves a plant that is not poisonous. The Canna Lily. We used to just grow it at the far end of the Row of Death. But then it multiplied. You know how the madman hates to throw plants in the compost. So now, we have quite a few Canna…
As we sat on the dock waiting for the Space Station to appear, the madman scanned the night sky. “I can only see five stars in the Little Dipper,” he said. “The Big Dipper is pretty faint, and if I didn’t know where the Milky Way was, I think I’d miss that too.” Lately it…
The madman’s Brugmansia path is looking good. It has taken a long time to get here. You see, it was one of those garden projects that kept getting moved to the back burner – probably because the prospect seemed daunting. Let me explain. We had the back patio with its all-important grill. About 48’ away…
July is here. The garden is in. The plants are growing. It’s the official start of the madman’s’ summer. Time for the Madman to relax, play and maintain. We aren’t too crazy about the maintaining, but it is a part of gardening. Luckily, we don’t do this for a living. And a long…
The other day the madman came running in all excited – “The disks are here!” No, not the newly released boxed CD collection by Stevie Nicks. These were small disks to plug up holes for his new watering system. New Watering System Last week he heard about an interesting watering system. We were at the…
Spring shouldn’t be this cold. It’s too cold to get a good start on the garden. Not sure who to blame here – El Niño, Mother Nature, the wildfires, the government… But we are way behind in our garden because the madman feels it’s just too cold to put his warm-loving plants in the ground….
End of May and we’ve been back from Arizona a little more than 3 weeks. We figured our gardens would be in by now. We’ve had plenty of time, we just haven’t had enough warmth. Even the madman’s classic “don’t plant gardens until May 15” was thrown out by a killing frost on May 16….
Mud pies one day, Organ Pipes and desert sunsets the next. Finally, a real road trip – of course, we had to fly first. But we went to the desert to check out the cacti – more specifically, the cactus flowers. Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument A drive through the Sonoran Desert brought us to…
It is May. I am thinking of May Poles, children dancing with colorful ribbons, and floral dresses. You know, the standard May Day stuff. Not the madman – he’s thinking of Beltane with its associated bonfires. Since both of these events celebrate summer, I guess we’re not too far apart. May Day is the European…