Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
My new car (in 2013) on its maiden mulch run. It's MUCH filthier now. Weed Prevention with Green Mulch a/k/a Groundcovers I SO agree with Elizabeth's "Ode to [...]
This is the time of year to enjoy the back of your flowers. Partly because they are very low down at the moment. It was years before I realised [...]
Guess there's a bit of Euell Gibbons in me. Gibbons was famous as a gourmand of any wild-growing edible he could find. As a fellow outdoorsman, when we moved to [...]
I have many favorite places but will recuse myself on the question of the most beautiful. I am biased by Kentucky’s natural beauty in April and May. It is what [...]
A mighty 150' tall white pine fell in a strong windstorm last Thursday night in Salvisa, Kentucky. My friend Otis Knox planted a dozen of these white pine seedlings [...]
Years ago, I started dragging alocasia and musa in and out of the garden every late spring and fall, but those 3-4 plants have always been incidental music in the [...]
I am repeating an extraordinary tale I heard over 40 years ago, one that deserves retelling. In 1979 I was working for Will Ingwersen, the alpine plants expert and [...]
A day devoted to spoiling people you love is okay with me, regardless of its Hallmark stigma and general aura of cliché. Just like the extra information at the public [...]
This is to connect our Southern Indiana farmhouse, built in 1860, to England’s famed RHS Garden Wisley, founded in 1878, to the legendary horticulturist Mike Dirr, his age doesn’t matter, [...]
In my own very biased assessment, my home garden and all my adopted gardens were unqualified successes in 2021, so yay! But I can't say the same for each and [...]
We probably all love hellebores, but some people seem to like them leafy and some people like them naked. And sometimes the plants themselves seem to come kind of in-between. [...]
