Winter interest? I can’t even try for fall interest.
This year’s Fling - a yearly get-together for garden bloggers, grammers and tubers - is the first to take place during the fall, from September 21 - 24. Or close [...]
Elizabeth Licata
Enlightened municipal food scrap pick-up is the way to go
Some of us just aren’t composters. Either we don’t have the space or we don’t have the time or we don’t have the inclination. I’d say all three of those [...]
A familiar voice speaks out on natives and pollinators
Well, look who’s thrown his famous hat in the ring of the often-contentious discussion around pollinators and native plants. It’s Friend of Rant Allan Armitage, the author of Herbacious Perennial [...]
Humble but pervasive road plants
On road trips, often it's the flowers blooming everywhere - by the side of the road, in untended lots, throughout otherwise unoccupied fields - that make the biggest impression, no [...]
You thought no mow May was dumb? Try chaos gardening.
Here’s another one of those fun fads that have gone utterly viral. It might be even more ridiculous than “No Mow May,” Are you ready? Chaos gardening. I might be [...]
Using plants to take control of the narrative
Readers are likely used to my talking about Garden Walk Buffalo at this time of year. The big walk is this weekend (7/29-30); it is the grand finale to [...]
A gorgeous landscape of easy plants
We’ve been going to Mirbeau in Skaneateles, NY for quick getaways since at least 2017. For full-on escapism within a 2-hour drive, it doesn’t get much better. The place is [...]
Wild, with an assist
Inevitably, plane travel makes me think of America as a much wilder place than I ordinarily judge it to be. We were flying into Charlottesville last week and I marveled [...]
Trying not to anger the hostas
Of all the plants I have covering the ground, from the front hellstrip to the back alley, the ones that really do the best job of just that - consistently [...]
Now I love geraniums
Many of my fellow Buffalo gardeners can barely bring themselves to embrace petunias. As for geraniums (pelargoniums)? They’re pretty much off the table. However, out here in the wider gardening [...]
It’s a rumble, but the weeds aren’t invited
There are a few sayings about weeds. The favorite one is that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Or plants the gardener doesn’t want. Or that we need [...]
Enjoyable opening acts
It is that brief, thrilling time when my front garden blazes with color - well, at least to me it blazes. Anyone walking by will note clumps of species tulips, [...]