A Strong Dose of Vitamin Fred

You know, you don't have to hit Social Security age to realize you just don't bounce back the way you used to. A couple of weeks ago...

As I noted, and you know if you're in this hemisphere along with most of the population, spring has arrived. And that means hope! Dreams...

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Nah, I'll just show some pictures of where I've been lately and what they're all abo...

On Monday, which was very hot, I took the dogs out to go lay down mulch around the plants and the trees in the front yard. Finally. I've...

Don't ask me what search terms I used that ralphed up this 2017 story on the web, because I don't remember. But this headline is har...

My favorite supermarket was having a springtime mulch sale. What a coincidence -- I needed some mulch! And they had the red dyed stuff, my f...

Between Thursday evening and Friday morning we got the first frost of the season. The killing frost. Welp, there went the dahlias. I...

I was walking one of the dogs when I came across a property that apparently sees a lot of dog traffic. They'd done some heavy replantin...

Moved into the house more than a decade ago, and there was a row of shrubs along the front yard. Juniper, azalea, evil barberry , azalea, ju...

One of my earliest memories is going into a lawn center in Brooklyn and being surrounded by every kind of artwork known to man . . . that wa...

I don't know what it is, but I have no gift for gardening. I come from city people who could make plastic flowers bloom, but out here in...