Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Periodically, I go visit my sister in San Jose. Every time I do, I'm fascinated to see so many of the same plants I grow in Cincinnati's wet and [...]
My local garden club was invited to an open garden event in a nearby retirement community of 3,000+ residents, enough to easily fill the 168 plots in their lovely community [...]
Here’s another one of those fun fads that have gone utterly viral. It might be even more ridiculous than “No Mow May,” Are you ready? Chaos gardening. I might be [...]
I hightailed it down to Asheville a few weeks ago to catch up on lost time. I hadn’t seen Heather Spencer or Charles Murray for a few years. I [...]
I’m sure some of you are wondering how Marianne’s visit went. Well, she came, saw, conquered and went off again, to explore Cornwall. I felt bereft when she left, but [...]
Some plants manage on their own, don’t they? Stick them in the ground and they get on with it. Sometimes they get on with the entire plot. We approve of [...]
I reside in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana now It’s different. I had lived and gardened previously in nearby rural Depauw. It would seem the old saw about change being the [...]
I am discovering more and more often that it is important to have a great many seats in the garden. In fact there should probably be one every three feet [...]
The central Kentucky dogwoods had barely finished blooming in early May when horticulturist, author, and speaker Abra Lee tipped me off to Camille T. Dungy’s new book, Soil: The [...]
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, [...]
