Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Mid-May planting fever. Eight already full acres and an old golf cart from which to explore. Where to put what? Again. There is no path least taken. They've all been [...]
Back when the gardening bug really hit me, we were raising two kids and watching our dollars. Or, at least watching the few we acquired being whisked off to creditors. [...]
High on a Hill in Utica, Indiana A few very random thoughts while sitting in a screened-in back porch in Utica Indiana in early April of 2020 while [...]
Madison private garden We’re not exactly known as “fly-over” states, but some of us in the Great Lakes area have to try harder to convince out-of-towners we’re cool. It shouldn’t be necessary. Thanks to, [...]
This was the view of my back garden, where some recent shrub- and tree-buying was really paying off, small space be damned. My one perennial that still looks good is [...]
This is my third and last post about Salt Lake City, which I visited for the garden communicators annual conference in September. I live in a town that's famous in [...]
I'm here to vent. In order to provide some enclosure and block the primary view from my house of a parking lot, I did the only thing that my co-op's [...]
This green and pleasant land (from the train) Whether or not you prefer British garden writing or the Stateside variety (I just like good writing wherever it originates), [...]
Think this is Little Quickfire If I wasn’t part of a huge garden tour every year, I wouldn’t make too big a deal of plants that don’t perform [...]
Back in 2013 I wrote approvingly of DC's "Phantom Planter" and his planting of flowers in public spaces without permission - guerrilla-style. But with his latest attempt to beautify the [...]
I’ll never consider attempting a rock garden again. Not after visiting the superb spaces of Denver, Fort Collins, and Boulder, all part of a recent garden bloggers’ trip that some [...]
So, OK, I’m lucky; not every driveway offers 300 feet of "Welcome Home." I understand that. What I’m talking about here is concept; the need to plant something special at [...]
