Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
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 [...]
I was reminded of Christopher Lloyd ‘s fondness for unpretentious nurseries on a beautiful drive to Lexington, Kentucky, last week. My destination was the 121-year-old Michler’s Florist, Greenhouses & [...]
Last summer I made the bold move to paint all my flower pots, including these two I painted 'Tomato Red.' They looked great until the end of the winter when [...]
Wild is now The Thing. This has made me review some of the plants in the garden. I am deciding which weeds I will choose to live with. As opposed [...]
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 [...]
It was serendipitous. For a few weeks in mid-spring, my garden is the tidiest it has ever looked, thanks to an application of mulch/compost that gets put down at the [...]
Maybe 20 years ago while visiting family in Mississippi I got word of a guy, somewhat of a local character, who had a greenhouse for sale. The guy, the story [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
To Label or Not to Label? There are some of us who aspire to put plants together in a considered and beautiful setting in such a way that they offer [...]
Here I am with another call-to-action post. This time, it’s for the Garden Bloggers Fling, held this year in Madison, Wisconsin, June 23–26. (Check out the link; there's plenty of [...]
Copyright Infringement!! The other day I was wondering if readers in America could obtain my books, if they were deluded enough to wish to. I checked on Amazon. I know [...]
