This weekend it's time to get professionally serious about a small area west of my fenced kitchen garden which has functioned as a mini-wildflower meadow (and then general eyesore) for [...]
1 September 2022 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, September dawns and I am completely unprepared for the fact that I was hardly in my garden in August and therefore terribly behind. [...]
July 30, 2022 Lovettsville, VA Dear Scott, I sense sarcasm in your last letter. Huge heavy wads of it if I’m not mistaken. The recrimination is deserved. You are correct, [...]
3 minute, 22 second read. It’s difficult to chew and enjoy an aged, grass-fed steak when you’ve been living on a diet of McDonalds cheeseburgers – or a sautéed portobello [...]
Once again, homeownership – and by extension, land ownership – is being pulled further out of reach from people with dreams of a large garden. The housing market has inflated [...]
Fresh from speaking to the Northwest Perennial Alliance’s Hardy Plant Study Weekend in Seattle, Washington last weekend, and seeing the greatest concentration of home gardens (and enthusiastic home gardeners) I [...]
June 9th, 2022 (for May 29th) Dear Scott, I am writing this from Heathrow Airport on the back of an exotic plant list from Dixter and will type it out [...]
Lovettsville, VA May 7, 2022 Dear Scott, As much as I hate to stress you out with yet another ambiguous deadline by immediately answering your letter, I find I have [...]
In many places all over the country, the garden tour season is beckoning. If you’re a subscriber to this site you’ve most likely got your engines revving and already have [...]
I could begin and end this post with its self-evident title, but there’s a little backstory for those who want something more than a declarative sentence. I’ll try and keep [...]
Lovettsville, VA 20180 March 17, 2022 Dear Scott, I am glad we agree upon the many joys of Brunnera and Carex, if not the fact that you are clearly affable [...]
Thursday morning and my deadline looms. How many times can you type a sentence only to erase it? I’ve been working on a world record this week. What can be [...]
