Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
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 [...]
Contemplating thuggish plants. Recently a few of us, all members of the Hardy Plant Society Monmouthshire Group, got together over a good supper to enjoy each other’s company and to [...]
Our home-grown snow peas bought the farm a few weeks ago, but I found agents of inspiration to take the edge off summer heat. Jared Barnes and Thomas Rainer [...]
It took a while for me to realize that almost all the gardens we were visiting in and around Madison, Wisconsin, had one feature in common. It finally sunk in [...]
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 [...]
