Garden Tails Stories & Tips
The Garden Tails Stories & Tips Gallery provides the context behind the art, documenting the real-life encounters in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania garden that inspire each piece. Here, you will find practical gardening tips—such as how to protect spring bulbs from hungry rabbits—alongside Bloomin Fool painting progression videos. These videos reveal the step-by-step evolution of a work, from the initial outline to the finishing layers of paint.
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Tails From The Studio:
Fine Art America Review
The studio quality-assurance mission is officially complete. To guarantee that art lovers can purchase with absolute confidence, Pittsburgh painter the Bloomin Fool launched a covert operation to test how his digital garden files transfer to a wide range of goods. Click the link to see actual samples on a variety of artful merchandise and find out how our fulfillment partner, Fine Art America, captures the rich depth of the original artwork.
Twisted Garden Tails:
Episode Two — Groundhog Day Part 2
The psychological warfare has officially breached the studio walls. In this second installment of Groundhog Day, the Bloomin Fool faces a new kind of infestation: a relentless, sleep-deprived paranoia where every shadow looks like a burrowing thief. Watch the canvas capture these waking nightmares layer by layer, documenting the satirical madness of a Pittsburgh artist haunted by the relentless ghosts of his own garden.
A Painting Blooms:
Groundhog Gang Eating Tomatoes 1.0
The garden is a battlefield, and tomatoes are the ultimate prize. In this episode of A Painting Blooms, watch a blank 8×8 panel transform via rich acrylic glazes into a satirical testament to Mother Nature’s ultimate extortion racket. The groundhog gang doesn’t just sample the harvest; they claim it with a relentless, maddening appetite that leaves every Pittsburgh grower weeping over their vines.
Twisted Garden Tails: Episode One —
Groundhog Day
The battle lines are drawn on the deck. This short film introduces the ultimate backyard nemesis disrupting a private Pittsburgh domain. While the Bloomin Fool believes he is the architect of the landscape, he quickly learns that Mother Nature simply doesn’t care. Watch how a painter seeks his satirical revenge through the power of the brush.
Garden Tails: The Real Resistance —Tickseed Coreopsis
Coreopsis lanceolata, most commonly known as lanceleaf tickseed, is one hardy native perennial that has performed flawlessly in the garden of the Bloomin Fool for decades. For anyone frustrated by local wildlife damage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, this dependable yellow wildflower is a true survivor—it has never been chewed by rabbits, chipmunks, groundhogs, or deer in his landscape.
Garden Tails: How to Eliminate Japanese Stiltgrass
As the Bloomin Fool strolled through his Western PA sanctuary, the ground practically erupted with vibrant green, opportunistic hitchhikers. Japanese stiltgrass had arrived, proving once again that Mother Nature never reads the landscape brief. While she plots her next move, here is the short, foolproof strategy to reclaim your perennial beds from this annual invader before it sets seed.
A Painting Blooms: Pittsburgh Mantis 1.0
Praying mantises don’t just offer silent benedictions; if your Western Pennsylvania garden is a sanctuary for pests, they are the pious answer to a grower’s prayer. Watch this painting come into fool bloom as Bloomin Fool captures these holy hunters in the divine act of garden preservation.
Tails From The Studio: Wabtec Bids For The Kids
It began with ravaged flowers inspiring two original works, Rabbit Eating Tulips 1.0 and Deer Dining on Roses 2.0. Leaving the studio for a charity auction, these pieces turn garden invasions into support for a greater cause.
Garden Tails: How to Protect Bulbs From Rabbit Damage
It started with tulips—planted with hope and gone in a single morning. No nibble, no test bite; just full commitment from a rabbit thief. The damage was real, but it became the inspiration for Rabbit Eating Tulips 1.0.
A Painting Blooms:Woodpecker Drilling on House 1.0
Woodpeckers don’t just drill trees; if your cedar siding is hiding bee larvae, your home is a barrier to their food. Watch this painting come into fool bloom as Bloomin Fool captures the bird in the criminal act of a bad renovation.
Garden Tails: How to Protect Plants From Deer Browsing
Whether it is spring tulips or winter evergreens, the local herd views the landscape as a year-round buffet. Every season brings a new target, and no deterrent seems to stop them. These encounters became the inspiration for Deer Santa Eating Holly 1.0.
A Painting Blooms: Chipmunk Digging Hydrangea 2.0
Chipmunks don’t just tunnel; they execute strategic excavations around your favorite hydrangeas to disrupt the very roots of your labor. Watch this painting come into full bloom as Bloomin Fool captures the creature in the criminal act of an unauthorized garden renovation.
A Painting Blooms: Raccoons Raiding Bird Feeder 1.0
Raccoons don’t just scavenge; they treat your bird feeder like a black-tie buffet, proving that a high-protein heist is best executed in formal wear. Watch this painting come into full bloom as Bloomin Fool captures these masked bandits in the criminal act of a midnight feast.
A Painting Blooms: Deer Santa 1.0
Deer don’t just browse; they treat your prize holly like a five-star holiday buffet, proving that a seasonal snack is best enjoyed with a side of festive entitlement. Watch this painting come into full bloom as Bloomin Fool captures this persistent diner in the criminal act of a garden feast.