Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
If you can kill one of these, you're good. May 2017 be the year that nobody insists to me that they have a “black thumb.” Except that I [...]
In a recent post, Evelyn Hadden shared some very useful tips on how fall’s leaves can be used in the garden. As a perennial enthusiast, I’d like to add a [...]
I'm sure grateful for the chance to enjoy the gardens of Toronto with 70 other garden bloggers last June. As I just heard on an NPR report yesterday, [...]
Once upon a time, cider-making, not football was the fall preoccupation throughout much of this country. Wherever apples grew – and thanks to pioneering nurserymen like John Chapman that included [...]
Refrigerator pickles: my first solo canning project I’m by no means a whiz in the kitchen, and honestly, I prefer to eat my garden veggies raw when possible. [...]
Which do you prefer on the garden floor: the varying texture of fallen leaves, or the fine-grained uniformity of wood chips? When I began making this new garden, I [...]
Avid gardeners, I bet you love your tools as much as I do, especially the ones for digging. Gloves I buy by the dozen but digging tools I expect to [...]
Even in New England the snow is melting and soon I will be confronted with what the winter – and the plow truck – have done to my stone walls. [...]
As I contemplate the task of plowing the driveway, I find it hard to see anything appealing in last night’s snowfall. It seemed to me that we already had plenty [...]
Bedhead is always in style in the Licata garden Trend reports are kind of trivial in the grand scheme of things—we can all agree on that. But they [...]
by Marianne Wilburn Recently, C.L. Fornari challenged garden writers to consider the way in which we portray the act of gardening. She asked us to discuss whether our tendency to [...]
Not to beat Elizabeth’s dead horse, but I am still pondering winter interest — and not just in dazzling snow-covered landscapes that most of us couldn’t reproduce in our own [...]
