Growing a Gardener
It's taken my entire life to grow into a gardener. As kids we played outside. My friends and I dug holes and pinched herbs from the neighbor’s garden for feasts [...]
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 [...]
Mason Bees, pollination heroes of a cold, damp spring
It’s in the best interest of gardeners, farmers, and anyone who eats, to support the health and well-being of Mason bees, a valuable early season pollinator. Independent, adaptable, and resilient, mason [...]
Plume Poppy — a great idea or garden lunacy?
I’ve arrived at that inexplicable place where I’ve forgotten the hassle and headache of eradicating Macleaya cordata, a colonizing perennial that once ran roughshod in the front garden, only to [...]
Christine Cook Taught Me Dragonfly Gardening
In recent years I’ve learned to re-define “garden wildlife” to include not only butterflies and bees, but also the host of other pollinating insects. Recently, Christine Cook of Mossaics Ecological [...]
Chipmunks may be cuter but they’re worse than rats in the garden
The other day, a visiting friend gasped when he saw a rat run across a corner of the suburban Connecticut yard where I garden during the week. I shuddered when [...]
Moose in my garden: the tracks are proof
I’ve posted before on this blog about the attraction of wildlife tracking in the garden. Garden wildlife, I noted then, reminds me of teenagers – the critters eat distressingly huge [...]