Monster Cupcakes! For Julian's 8th birthday. The cake is a basic vanilla cupcake from scratch (an adaptation of a recipe from M...

This 3x8 foot bed was an experiment in small-space gardening! There are 8 tomato plants, trained to a trellis, in the back of the bed. Eggpl...

I had to prune back the basil plants to let the peppers get some sun... which resulted in mass quantities of basil leaves! Pesto recipe (Ada...

Views of the terraced rock garden... April 8 and April 9th.

View from the bedroom... it is hard to see, but there are dozens of yellow and purple crocuses in the leaf-littered lawn. View from the kitc...

My Ikea orchid, in bloom again (3rd year).

Hardy geraniums flourishing in the sunny window in my bedroom. They're some of the only plants that made it through the winter in less-t...