Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
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 [...]
Guest post by Susan Dieterlen I should know better, but I’ve planted radishes again. In this my 40th year of growing vegetables, I can count on one hand the number [...]
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, [...]
Last Sunday, we stopped at a local market to pick up vegetables for dinner. It was a rainy warmish day, with temps in the mid-to-high 50s. As we were entering [...]
And right then, before I can forget, I find my calendar app, scroll to some random date in August, and type, "Order more daffs."
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? The immortal first lines from the poem 'Leisure' by W.H. Davies, published in 1911. [...]
Being a stone kinda guy, I spent a few happy hours the other day rescuing a rock garden just outside our shaded side door that had been buried in time, [...]
"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come" --James Thomson Typical spring skies in the Pacific Northwest Funny, I always remember the above quote as “ethereal madness” … and am [...]
It’s true that there are certain words in the English vocabulary that evoke a very predictable response. In the case of gardeners, it’s the F- word. Don't panic. This is [...]
Guest post by Sally Blanton I confess that I did voluntarily plant a start of bamboo in my residential, urban yard because how else could you get a beautiful living [...]
Do hellebores need a defense? I wouldn’t have thought so a decade ago, but three years ago I had to defend their cultivation to a master gardener who officially advised [...]
Not to pick on the Brits, who were involved in my last rant concerning the isle of Wight’s Ventnor Gardens, but now I’m hearing that there’s a vegetable shortage on [...]
