Jayne's Country Garden

Earlier this year I read disheartening reports about the numbers of Monarch butterflies being dramatically down in their wintering grounds ...

What a wonderful day to be out in the garden!  Clear blue skies, low humidity, pleasant temperatures - just perfect!  OK, so I had ...

One evening during the week, I headed out to the front garden with a view to pruning the milkweed, which have completely taken over the fron...

Recently I've seen other bloggers posting photographs of Monarch butterflies and Monarch caterpillars in their garden and I've been ...

Since we moved in here, I have been interested in attracting Monarch butterflies and we now have several stands of healthy milkweed, the on...

The Houston area typically doesn't get the spectacular displays of fall color that New England is famous for. Many of our trees stay g...