Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
I've just spent an enjoyable weekend at the Royal Horticultural Society's National Rhododendron Show at Rosemoor, a lovely garden here in the South West of England. What a great show [...]
A longer version of this article was originally published in Conservation Sense and Nonsense in March of this year and brought to our attention by CSN editor, Mary McAllister. I [...]
Well, I’m not going to start this with gardening. This bit is too good. As I’ve said before, Marion Cran (now titled ‘Mrs Cran, the author of The Garden of [...]
Even while enjoying spring flowers in our yards, we tend to think of them as just former temporary residents of box stores such as Lowes or Menards, the local nursery [...]
I am recently returned from almost six weeks away from my garden punctuated by a short week of illness at home, where I impatiently laid in bed, sipped broth, and [...]
Yard waste - what I think of when I hear the term "plant material." Have you ever noticed that people in the plant business refer to plants as [...]
OK, more Marion Cran for you. I decided we'd look at The Garden of Ignorance this time, since we can all identify with that and it takes us back to [...]
Guest post by Ciaran De Buitlear It sounds right: let things grow, help pollinators, step back, work with nature. But a real garden is not an idea. It is a [...]
Ok, yes, we do have live ones. Here's a grass snake swimming in the pool at Veddw But this one though isn’t an adder or a grass snake [...]
I spent last weekend at a small but excellent local flower show. I was there in various capacities – judge, helper, clean-up crew – for both days. It was nice [...]
In the face of our increasingly warming and drying climate in the Pacific Northwest, my front garden is planted to reduce time at the end of a hose. [...]
I've been following Reddit for a while and for gardening content it's the most interesting of all my social accounts, with SO many real yards needing help and getting advice. [...]
