Welcome to my little suburban garden. I’m so glad you’re here! I’m Heather, the heart and hands behind this blog. Since 2004, I’ve worked to transform my cookie cutter, Chicago-area home into a place of wonder and beauty. What was once just grass and a single tree has become a space overflowing with life and…
Hi everyone and Happy Thanksgiving! It’s been a full year, made even fuller by the bounty I’ve grown and harvested in my little raised bed veg patch. If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you might remember my veggie garden glow up last fall. All that backbreaking work (a truckload of pea gravel…
Thanks to HISEA for partnering with me on this post. As always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. A few months ago, a work boot company called HISEA (pronounced “Hi-Sea”) reached out to me about reviewing a garden boot of my choice. I wasn’t familiar with them so before agreeing, I dug into their…
When I was little, I rooted for Peter Rabbit as he narrowly escaped Mr. McGregor’s garden. How could anything so cute be so detested? Thing is, I wasn’t a gardener back then and there was nothing to lose. Boy have things changed and my opinion of these critters has done a total one-eighty. Case in…
I was doing a live chat on Instagram a few months ago with my friend Erin, you know her as The Impatient Gardener, and we briefly touched on roses. Our conversation turned to them when I asked her about a plant she was over. She thought for a moment and replied “roses.” Too much work,…
The Christmas decorations are packed away and I finally have space in my brain to think about something not holiday related. Why Heather, whatever could that be? No surprise here. Gardening is always front and center. In addition to the veg garden that got a glow-up at the end of 2022, I’m also focusing on…
