Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
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 [...]
This was a big summer for me. A huge summer. I had a blow out garden dinner party with a bunch of illustrious horticultural guests scheduled for the end of [...]
We’ve had half an inch of rain and the land is rejoicing. (Yes, there is also flooding, as predicted) And it’s been possible to venture out into the garden today [...]
'New Dawn' rose in the author's garden after 25 years Time adds an important dimension to gardening. Nobody told me about it. I just had to learn it [...]
Well, here’s a rant. We are having a drought here in the UK, and unusually high temperatures. Three days of mega heat caused widespread panic – if we are to [...]
I flew to Seattle a few weeks ago to visit my daughter Molly and her family in Bellingham, Washington—a two-hour drive north of Seattle. Give me Liberty took flight [...]
With temperatures hovering at around a gazillion degrees, it seems strange to Rant about a small spot of freeze damage, a spot which is not on my plants, but on [...]
The author is happy alone in his garden. I believe we gardeners (home hobbyists, not including farmers or those teaching others to garden), are mostly alone when we [...]
As I attempt to view the garden with a clear eye, I’ve found I need to consider decay, disorder and dereliction. It’s the nature of a garden and garden plants [...]
Over the past couple months, I’ve been more of a garden gawker than usual. In June, I was one of a group of garden communicators touring private gardens in Madison, [...]
I posted here about deciding NOT to remove all the old, overgrown and crappy-looking Junipers in front of this building. Commenters warned that if allowed to stand, the massive plants would [...]
Beach with weeds Guest post by Amelia Grant Ten years ago, my husband and I bailed out of traffic infested Atlanta, GA and moved to a small town [...]
