Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Witch hazel in Central Park in March Nor, to a great extent, is the outdoors. As the menu of possible activities narrows exponentially—for New York this means no [...]
I always have books around and these are good ones. I'll be giving these to the beginning gardeners I know, except for Tom's, which I'll keep. Beginning gardeners [...]
From the editor: Rant readers following the verbal sparring between our own Scott Beuerlein and guest ranter Marianne Willburn may be wondering if the daggers had been sheathed for good [...]
If I were being completely honest, and I'm usually not, I would admit that I have an almost maniacally caricatured impulse to over-plant. Collector’s mentality run amok. Garden design joyfully [...]
Sometimes common knowledge, what everybody knows to be true, just isn’t. That’s the case, I’ve found, with much of the broadly accepted information about companion planting. Do tomatoes really [...]
This is the initial pile (partial view). At this moment, two things are true. I still have 4 boxes of bulbs—maybe 250 or so total—sitting in the back [...]
Tarda 'Dasystemon' species tulips: these have returned for me for years. That’s the title of a talk I gave recently for a suburban/rural gardening club, though maybe it [...]
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 [...]
