Lilies bring remembrances of sanity past
Marcel Proust did not overestimate the power of the senses to recall the past. As soon as the first wave of fragrance from my ‘Garden Party’ orienpet lilies hits, I [...]
Elizabeth Licata
Is social distancing a natural thing for gardeners?
A better term is “physical distancing,” which is literally what I have to do when I am working in the front garden and anyone walks by. Rather than tread on [...]
In a pandemic liquor is essential. Is landscaping?
Hope I'll soon be able to make a haul like this again, but safely. That was the question yesterday, as local green industry owners and employees were discussing [...]
In a shutdown, the garden is never closed
Witch hazel in Central Park in March Nor, to a great extent, is the outdoors. As the menu of possible activities narrows exponentially—for New York this means no [...]
Preaching among the choir about native plants
Lurie Gardens, Chicago If one more person asks me if I have heard of or read books by Doug Tallamy, I’ll …. Well, I guess I won't really [...]
Mad for Madison
Madison private garden We’re not exactly known as “fly-over” states, but some of us in the Great Lakes area have to try harder to convince out-of-towners we’re cool. It shouldn’t be necessary. Thanks to, [...]
Marketing to gardening ignorance
I always have books around and these are good ones. I'll be giving these to the beginning gardeners I know, except for Tom's, which I'll keep. Beginning gardeners [...]
Monty, Monty, Monty
Cue the swelling music, and then … Huge! Magnificent! Spectacular! Astonishing! Extraaaooordinary! Count on hearing those superlatives and more over the course of Monty Don’s three-part American Gardens, which aired [...]
Ready to release beneficial insects indoors?
Yes, this is a thing. When I posed the question to a few close gardening friends, I got either or both of these responses: “Huh?” and “NO WAY!” However, I [...]
What’s in a decade? Plenty of gardening, for sure.
2010 was the year 70 garden bloggers came to Buffalo and toured this lovely spot, among others. There’s been a deluge of backward-looking articles and posts, so why [...]
Selfies by gardeners – is this really about plants?
I love my new monstera but not enough to take a selfie with it. The question was staring at me from my Facebook feed, in the form of [...]
Amaryllis – a no-maintenance plant, finally
But. Unsurprisingly, that is the opposite of what many gardeners want. After paying scant attention to this trend as talk of it reached me last year, I finally took the [...]