Navigating the Late-Season Garden
As I mentioned in a recent newsletter, I am officially OVER the 2025 growing season. My garden is parched and defeated. And so am I. Uneasy with my discord I [...]
Smokey skies and late season dahlias
A favorite dark-leaved dahlia with fiery single blooms that pollinators love. I don't know about you, but it's easier for me to do something every day than [...]
A Challenging Call to Change our Relationship with Nature
Gardening is an ancient craft but Mary Reynolds, a “reformed” internationally acclaimed landscape designer, hopes to propel a paradigm shift in how we approach the care and tending of our [...]
With Climate Change, Invasive Plant Problems Just Get Worse
“Fasten your horticultural seatbelts.” That was the gist of what Dr. Bethany Bradley told me when I interviewed her for my podcast last month. Dr. Bradley is an invasion ecologist [...]
Gardening for Climate Action
I’ve rarely been as deeply affected emotionally as I was this fall when I attended a pair of demonstrations by young people -- teenagers and pre-teens – calling for climate [...]
Natives – A Moving Target?
Will the wild orchids in my woods survive the changes of the next half century? There was a certain irony in the timing, given America’s withdrawal from the [...]