Sassafras Mama

The summer’s heat has begun to take a toll on my hosta plants, an August development that I am accustomed to.   But there is still beauty to...

 I t’s the lush and overgrown season around the garden and that is just fine by me.   I enjoy the morning dew cradled in the elepha...

The hostas in my front yard flowerbed are an assortment I've gathered over the years.   Some are transplants from a friend’s garde...

All my efforts in the front yard flowerbed over the last few years are paying dividends this month, as the hostas fill the spaces in the so...

I spent most of Spring Break avoiding a clean out of this flowerbed .   In normal times, I see it every day and the mess would have guilted...

It is an established fact that I love hostas of all sorts.   The varieties that grow in my garden make me happy on a daily basis. ...

The front yard flowerbed at my house has been a project for the last few years.   A few unpleasant bushes were removed and the ivy...

The hosta beds are all at rest this month.   When I look at them, it’s hard to believe that they were so vibrant just a few months...

Garden hostas look good until they don’t and we’ve had enough frost in the past few weeks to end their season. The leaves ...

The hostas are weary by this time of the year, the result of all the growing that has been accomplished in the last few months...

A typical summer around here results in lots of August heat but not enough rain to keep up with the heat.   By this point in the year, ...

The summer seems to be flying by and I am nowhere ready to see it end.   After a patch of very hot and dry weather, summer storms ...

May brought the rain and June brought the sunlight.   Thanks to both, July’s hostas are looking quite lovely, with stalks and flow...

May was a busy month of blooms, thanks to abundant sunlight and rain.   My hosta beds rather led the way.   In the front yard, th...