Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Niagara River rapids in October It’s time to breathe a sigh of relief—one tinged with melancholy, perhaps. Aside from getting a few hundred bulbs in the ground before [...]
The most dreaded thing I’ve ever had to face was to be dragged along while my mom took my sisters shopping. Any time this happened, it was beyond awful. A [...]
I haven’t spent so much per ounce for plant material since I was a miscreant teenager decades ago. These three bags of seeds from Prairie Nursery in Westfield, Wisconsin, however, [...]
Robert Cook in rain garden, with elderberry. My post about a recent tour of Baltimore gardens omitted one because it was SO interesting, I wanted to go back and [...]
'Standing Ovation' Little Bluestem. Credit: North Creek Nurseries. Got deer? Then you relate to this sad before-and-after duo. I'd planted the red Iresine 'Blazin' Rose' there before, with [...]
Rose unleashes the Louisville garden. I am 68 years old and have been gardening for almost 50 years. For more than a third of this long garden row—18 [...]
Anyone else gardening around poison ivy? How to Remove Poison Ivy Oil on your Skin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oyoDRHpQK0 I've been wondering what to do about the poison ivy in my garden, so [...]
Our weed album (just a screenshot, not the actual album, sorry) As our local gardening Facebook group advances into actual gardening weather, we are getting flooded with member [...]
A garden that accommodates change The catchy phrase "right plant, right place" has gone viral in the gardening world, and it makes me groan. If these words referred only [...]
Sower with Setting Sun “I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” Vincent Van Gogh I doubt, at my age, I will be sowing too many wild oats. [...]
The other day I was working in this garden, digging up and planting large clumps of these Black-eyed Susans, when my body suddenly scared the bejesus out of me. My [...]
Fall brings on the urge to clean up, but reconsider! I was reporting for jury duty, feeling anonymous in a pool of fellow citizens, when the court officer [...]
