Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
The symbolic promise of a new year is not enough for me this time around. Normally happy to raise my glass and cheerfully throw out The Old as the clock [...]
A screenshot from a facebook post (don't click on the +3) Usually, at this time of year, my social feeds are filled with cries of “Too soon!, too [...]
Rose Russell Blakely passed away in late September. Aunt Rose loved her garden. She was 93 years old. I often visited Aunt Rose, and her garden, in Washington, D.C., since [...]
Photo by Mark Nowak No, you’ll find no dreadful scenes like the above lurking about my property. There is no need for manufactured horror here. If I want [...]
Browntail moth – note the tail! My post about Lyme Disease – especially my forgetting to freak out about it, thanks to worrying about Covid – prompted this [...]
This is a year when speculation about the future underlies almost everything we do. When will we be able to see children/grandchildren/siblings who live in another state or country? When [...]
Some candidates for fall planting Never mind clean-up. Winter will take care of most of that. This is when I like to tear the garden apart. First comes [...]
This might be Creme Upstar, though not double enough. Nothing lasts forever. Beauty is fleeting. You’re heard these hackneyed sayings many times. But maybe this year they’re worth [...]
I knew full well what I was getting into. My dormant gardening genes from my father's side kicked in back in 1987, soon after my wife and I bought our [...]
In the beginning there were blessed, soaking rains. Then came the curse of the tangled hose. The Romans built aqueducts to move water around. I, on the other hand, drag [...]
Back in May of 2018 I ranted about the "New Look for Gardeners Freaked out about Lyme Disease" using this image of a hazmat suit for yucks to illustrate the [...]
