Our gardens, our guest ranters’ gardens, and other people’s home gardens.
Neither sorrow nor fear has diminished home gardening’s potential to heal during this pandemic spring. Chris Beytes of Grower Talks, the respected commercial trade magazine, has been keeping tabs [...]
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 [...]
