Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
No holiday post from me - but I bet you've seen plenty lately and anyway, this post has been sitting in draft for ages. From video by Land Designs [...]
My husband and I were early adopters of Apple watches when they were first introduced in 2015. I now have a series 3, which can act independently of the iPhone, [...]
My latest gardening obsession is making over the landscape in front of my housing co-op offices, where the top priority is to do something about the overgrown junipers. Planted too [...]
Scott's father planted a pin oak to commemorate his son's birth 57 years ago. I’ve finally gotten around to reading a book called The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart. [...]
In my last post I wrote about hunting for the apples with which I make hard cider. Having done that – I’ve located two trees full of what appear to [...]
This is the time of year when I start scouting for apple trees. Neglected, venerable trees full of fruit that nobody wants. Not shiny, red, and flawless, ready to be [...]
Arborescens (Annabelle?) hedge in Lake Placid Thanks to plentiful rain and other friendly conditions, this is the summer of the Hydrangea in the Northeast, at least as far [...]
Guest post by David The Good For years I rented rototillers or—more expensively—owned gas tillers of my own. There’s nothing like tearing up a big patch of ground until your [...]
There have been very few opportunities for even the most avid of gardeners to plant bright red geraniums in an old, gray washing machine tub, so pay attention to this [...]
The upper middle hybrid is pretty, but doesn't do nearly as well as the others here. Like many shade gardeners, I am in love with hellebores. They start [...]
One of the only places to find decent info on FB It can depend on who’s in your friend list, but I’ve seen enough to determine that asking [...]
Everything will come up roses. Alternative facts, that is. If there is any group of people that has learned to accept unpleasant realities—often brought on by natural forces—that [...]
