Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
As the first brightly coloured leaf falls to the ground a new season begins. Not the season of autumn, no, but the season of complaining about leaf blowers. It's an [...]
I’m end of season - it was a hard season, so hot and so dry - and I’m so so tired. That would make anyone a bit moany?? So here's a [...]
If you have a biggish garden it becomes necessary to name bits of it. It means you can discuss those bits when you’re not in them, and in an ideal [...]
Growing gardeners while we tend our plants. When I was in elementary school, lo so long ago, one of my favorite assignments was writing a recap like, My [...]
I’m trying not to feel needy after reading the latest “leave the leaves” wisdom in a very good article by Margaret Roach (gift link) that ran in the NYTimes last [...]
We just needed a way to get up to the Magnolia Walk. And I had read how important it is to be generous with the width of your paths [...]
Persian Shield with sweet potato vine. Lower left is a 'Goshiki' Osmanthus. Visitors have asked me about the insect holes seen here in pots next to my front [...]
I would guess that most intrepid gardeners don’t mind getting wet during the heat of the summer. Whether I am actively being rained upon, or down in the beds weeding [...]
Fifty years on the farm and we are now in another great old house. Sturdy renovated and homey. Big rooms. Fine floors. Indoor plumbing. And only 98 years old, [...]
Next year everything in the garden will be so much better! Next year the Clerodendrum Bungei will have spread more and more in the border with the Telekia speciosa : [...]
This time of year, especially in a year like this, a lot of people are looking at their plants and asking, “Is it dead?” It’s a pretty good question, because, [...]
So many newbies to gardening are motivated by what they've heard about native plants, so naturally they look to the native-plant advocacy groups for the information they need to garden [...]
