City Mouse Garden

Did the thing where I finally created CMG on the 🦋 place so reach out if you are already there. #gardening #community #friends

A hawk and a squirrel might seem unlikely to be near each other. However, this hawk is a Cooper’s hawk, and they don’t typically prey on small mammals like many raptors do. Instead, Cooper’s hawks prey primarily on birds. #BirdTwitter 📷 : Jen Radwan

Meant to post yesterday for #ClematisThursday (zoom in for #pollinator) but too busy taking diva to groomers & stocking up on clearance bargain winter sowing soil before it’s too late (usually mix own peat-free blend but supplementing this year due to fatigue issues). #gardening

Nicotiana glutinosa glowing in the sun like an absolute peachy-bronze goddess. 😍 I can’t believe I have such beautiful #flowers clinging on this late in our season! #gardening #joy #FebruaryToFrost #UrbsInHorto #Chicago

Our seedheads bring all the #birds to the yard. #gardening #nature #photography

Babe, wake up…I bought seeds again. PS, if you live in the US and you haven’t discovered William Woys Weaver/Roughwood Center’s collection of weird & wonderful seeds yet, you’re welcome. #gardening #KitchenGarden #Garden2Table #GYO

Another majestic bloom *from today* for #RoseWednesday thanks to #WeatherWTF. #SmellTheRoses #gardening

More #RoseWednesday insanity… ‘Purple Tiger’ has exploded into activity. Have never seen so many blooms at once. This is a young rose (2nd season) so not surprising to see it settle in but it is loving this mild weather. #gardening #joy #SmellTheRoses

It’s #RoseWednesday & I’m excited to spread #gardening #joy with a new bloom from ‘Wedding Party’ this week that slapped me in the face with its huge scent the other day. #Photography #Roses #SmellTheRoses

@triplett84285 I have pics of entire beds but pretty impossible to show whole garden in few pics from ground level because we have no space for vistas. It’s literally just narrow paths & fully planted areas at this point. Shady front from street trees & closer to house in back. Rest full sun.

@CityMouseGarden Do you have many pictures of your gardens as a whole versus one picture of individual plants? I am so curious as to how you fit all these things into a Chicago city lot. Flowers, vegetables, berries, ornamental bushes. Shade, sunshine. You seem to have it all.

The one exception to the rule about not staring directly into the sun. Feel free to bathe in the serene warm light of these Rudbeckia ‘Henry Eilers’ still popping in our front gardens today. #FallColors #UrbsInHorto #Chicago #FebruaryToFrost #ecosystem #gardening

Just your regular run-of-the-mill November blackberry blossoms. 🤯 #KitchenGarden #GYO #Garden2Table #WeatherWTF

Some tasty greens (and reds 🤣) coming in & chile plants still dripping with fruit before picking yesterday. 48F high today so we’ll see what happens to the still ripening masses. #KitchenGarden #Garden2Table #GYO

One of my absolute favorite #NativePlants, Lonicera sempervirens, still showing off on November 12th. #UrbsInHorto #Chicago #gardening #ecosystem

@joewaters Yep. I just got set up this weekend. Same handle. You?

@CityMouseGarden You on Bluesk

@SaraphineLorenz Wow! We’ve had extended above average temps here so lots of things are lingering this year… not even a hard frost yet. Definitely hoping the snaps will seed around given their performance. Excellent last food for #pollinators during these strange new weather patterns.

@CityMouseGarden I still have some snaps hanging on as of today at about 5,000 feet in Montana. Amazing things. Already been snowed on.

Super cute twins in my garden today. #FallColors #FebruaryToFrost #UrbsInHorto #Chicago

Good morning from the delicate blooms of my variegated Daphne still perfuming the air by the front walk. Not a winter-blooming variety so quite impressive that it is still chugging along. #FallColors #FebruaryToFrost #gardening

A new rose still trying to push out blooms against odds. Probably because tree that overhangs it has lost all its leaves now so it’s getting a bit more light despite daylight hours shrinking. Love signs of struggle in coloring. #FallColors #FebruaryToFrost #gardening #UrbsInHorto

This is what November looks like in #Chicago this year. Hot peppers, dried beans, sweet peppers—all harvested in about an hour of garden puttering today. 🤯 #gardening #KitchenGarden #Garden2Table #GYO #UrbsInHorto

It’s that strange time of year in the garden when before & after happily coexist. A helpful reminder to just keep putting one foot in front of the other because #nature always does. #FallColors #FlowersAreHope #gardening