Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
It was serendipitous. For a few weeks in mid-spring, my garden is the tidiest it has ever looked, thanks to an application of mulch/compost that gets put down at the [...]
Maybe 20 years ago while visiting family in Mississippi I got word of a guy, somewhat of a local character, who had a greenhouse for sale. The guy, the story [...]
I could begin and end this post with its self-evident title, but there’s a little backstory for those who want something more than a declarative sentence. I’ll try and keep [...]
Years ago, I started dragging alocasia and musa in and out of the garden every late spring and fall, but those 3-4 plants have always been incidental music in the [...]
To Label or Not to Label? There are some of us who aspire to put plants together in a considered and beautiful setting in such a way that they offer [...]
Here I am with another call-to-action post. This time, it’s for the Garden Bloggers Fling, held this year in Madison, Wisconsin, June 23–26. (Check out the link; there's plenty of [...]
Copyright Infringement!! The other day I was wondering if readers in America could obtain my books, if they were deluded enough to wish to. I checked on Amazon. I know [...]
Still being nagged by those garden writers. I wasn’t going to do this again. I thought that there can’t be many things we’d be told to do in February that [...]
I have spent decades learning, teaching and working with plants and landscapes. But I hesitate to call myself a landscape designer. My expertise is in the creation of planted ecosystems. [...]
The great Gertrude Jekyll famously and rightly said: "The possession of a quantity of plants, however good the plants may be themselves and however ample their number, does not make [...]
This is to connect our Southern Indiana farmhouse, built in 1860, to England’s famed RHS Garden Wisley, founded in 1878, to the legendary horticulturist Mike Dirr, his age doesn’t matter, [...]
Many gardeners enjoy horticulture as an escape from the hustling-bustling side of life, finding peaceful satisfaction in digging, weeding and harvesting. At one time, gardening really was a quiet pursuit, [...]
