Garden of Aaron

  That's not a hedgehog in my palm -- it's a burr gherkin ! It looks like a little spiky cucumber. (And to be honest, it kind of tas...

Some buds are still wrapped tight, but flowers starting to unfurl... Spring is a time of hope and promise in my Middle Tennessee garden. Pru...

"Blue Bird" rose of Sharon, that is... 😏 ( Mea culpa ... I originally identified the shrub below as 'Blue Satin'. There i...

Asclepius tuberosa is commonly known as butterflyweed. But as this photo shows, that might be a misnomer. Check out my video on...

Penstemon digitalis I've been experimenting with using more Penstemons in the garden recently. I grew Penstemon digitalis (foxglove pe...

'Carefree Beauty' rose. The rose is truly carefree in terms of being tough and self-sufficient, but... ...it can get enormous if...

Happy 2020. Yes, it's already March, but frankly there was not much that I wanted to document in my Middle Tennessee garden in January...

Every day, I count my lucky stars when I go into the garden and see the buzzing bumblebees in the partridge peas ( Chamaecrista fasciculata...

Apologies for the wind noise in the video, but the rose petty ( Erigeron pulchellus ) flower stalks sway so prettily on a blustery day... ...

Happy 2019! (OK, so it's March, but it's the first blog post of 2019, so I'm sending happy wishes regardless.) As Spring peeks ...