Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Here's a post I wrote in April, 2006, with updates in italics. It's safe to say that I put almost none of the resolutions I made here into practice. Helen [...]
Welcome guest Ranter Loree Bohl. Do you know what I hate? Being told how I’m supposed to do something. Phrases like “that’s just how it’s done…” or “everybody does it [...]
Many years ago, we visited a garden and found box clippings all over a path from the gardener’s hedge cutting. We piled them into a carrier bag, took them home [...]
There are few things more magical than a snowfall, and few terms more overused to describe it. Nonetheless, the cliché communicates the outright miracle of slowing a world that refuses [...]
Sadly, I don't think bulb forcing will ever be much of a trend for home gardeners. As much as I respect the work of industry groups that like [...]
The symbolic promise of a new year is not enough for me this time around. Normally happy to raise my glass and cheerfully throw out The Old as the clock [...]
A screenshot from a facebook post (don't click on the +3) Usually, at this time of year, my social feeds are filled with cries of “Too soon!, too [...]
Rose Russell Blakely passed away in late September. Aunt Rose loved her garden. She was 93 years old. I often visited Aunt Rose, and her garden, in Washington, D.C., since [...]
Photo by Mark Nowak No, you’ll find no dreadful scenes like the above lurking about my property. There is no need for manufactured horror here. If I want [...]
Browntail moth – note the tail! My post about Lyme Disease – especially my forgetting to freak out about it, thanks to worrying about Covid – prompted this [...]
This is a year when speculation about the future underlies almost everything we do. When will we be able to see children/grandchildren/siblings who live in another state or country? When [...]
