Vegetables mixed with flowers add texture and surprise in this bouquet. Suitably, it is photographed in front of the kitchen garden. A feast for the eyes, feverfew mixed with yarrow, black-eyed Susan's, heliotrope, and shelling pea foliage. And a pea pod for good measure! The soft, furry purple flowers are bee balm, planted along the perimeter of the garden to bring the bees for pollination. Pictured in front of the rusty, chicken-wire garden gate. If you look hard enough, yo

Greetings from the middle, the betwixt and between of spring and fall, the center of summer gardening. It's a busy time, is it not? Watering, weeding, pruning and whoops! The soil is dry again. The radishes are popping out of the ground, apples are beginning to drop out of overladen branches, the roses need dead-heading again and the lilac has shoots springing up everywhere. What a beautiful joy it is to nurture the garden! If I'm not careful, however, it's possible to let al