Welcome everyone who has landed here following your local film screening of "Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling us?" Or maybe we met you at one of the Green Festivals or the San Francisco Flower Show...

Having recently launched our Citizen Science platform and entered into a partnership with The Great Sunflower Project to count bees across North America, YourGardenShow has been keenly interested in what others are doing to help save our bees. When we heard of "Vanishing of the Bees," a documentary that reveals the plight of our nectar-loving pollinators, YourGardenShow headed over to the L.A. premiere to see what all the buzz was about.

Here on the edge of the Great Plains, the phrase “freak snow” is an oxymoron. Some years we have snow in May. Old timers say they’ve seen snow in June.

Late snows are typically wet and sticky. They build up on leaves and limb, adding weight that tears off branches. The falling branches drag down power lines and we go dark.

A mother is like a master gardener - she tends to our lives and our hearts with great care, just as a gardener tends their plants that they might grow tall and strong.  As Mother's Day 2011 approaches this Sunday, families are secretly convening to discuss how to best celebrate their beloved matriarch - from Mother's Day poems and Mother's Day cards, to Mother's Day flowers.

"Folli Giardinieri," Maury's new book (published May 6th, 2011), is about love, gardening and gardeners - with Maury's photos as illustrations (Pendragon press).  This blog is excerpted from one chapter.  The book is an outgrowth of some of his television work.  Should be a good one - and hope to see it soon in English!