Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Set for a small daytime NYE gathering Is there anyone else whose tolerance for frigid temps has risen significantly this winter? In the cold climate zones of the [...]
The symbolic promise of a new year is not enough for me this time around. Normally happy to raise my glass and cheerfully throw out The Old as the clock [...]
To walk through a young garden in winter is a courageous act when the garden is your own, and the budget, diminutive. We forget how much frosting the active growing [...]
These pots in my back garden used to contain bold-colored annuals that grew surprisingly large - particularly the red Iresine here with sweet potato vine. Then the deer found them [...]
Time to update my bird bath post, which declared the bath to be awaiting use by actual birds. I had temporarily moved it away from the house and close to [...]
Right now, here in fall, this is when all the many flaws in my garden are on glorious, full on, full frontal display. Proudly, they flaunt themselves, mocking me to [...]
In lieu of organizing an in-person garden tour this year, I've gone virtual, making or helping make 8 video "tours" so far, with just one more to go. At first [...]
Early February. Pam Spaulding photo. I squeaked by in high school chemistry doing little more than fiddling around with the Bunsen burner so it would throw flames like [...]
UPDATE: This is not what I had in mind: In a recent post I used this photo of what I declared was my final design for the little nook out [...]
My local informal gardening group WAS going to put on a garden tour, so when that couldn't I began experimenting with virtual tours - online but with the option that local [...]
As the gardening team at Buffalo’s Darwin Martin House—really a campus with seven structures on it—enters its second year of planting and maintaining the original landscape Frank Lloyd Wright planned [...]
Thank you all for your many color suggestions for my front garden, in comments to this post. I love those colors, too! But I had to choose, and for an [...]
