A few months ago I watched a touching Masterpiece production called “Any Human Heart.” In one scene, a glamorous woman reaching the end of her life reflects back on a time when, almost penniless, she had purchased a bunch of violets even though she was going hungry at the time and perhaps might have used [...]

If you garden with real engagement (more than mowing and retreating to the emotional safety of your four walls), you sometimes see things you would prefer to have missed. I confess myself to be guilty of sugar coating what goes on in my garden because I love it and would not have that experience diminished [...]

Domestic art can speak with a larger voice. Bronwen Salton has taken the plastic art of crochet and brought immediacy to the effects of what we often thoughtlessly discard. “Using waste as a medium also lends an embedded meaning to the work. It speaks of our relation to the environment and our relation to art. [...]

This will be quick: Pink Parade miniature roses to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. In DFW, currently at Tom Thumb. (Even on sale. Wow.) Your local provider may vary, but it never hurts to help. Go look and give your karma and your yard a boost!

As I was poking about to check for water requirements at mid-day, I spied something just under the mulch in one of the front beds: a single leaf of a Gerbera daisy that we had taken for dead. Even though I know it’s only a single plant, when we take it into our environment, make [...]