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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]