Gardening products – hoses, fertilizers, etc – and garden shows everywhere.
No holiday post from me - but I bet you've seen plenty lately and anyway, this post has been sitting in draft for ages. From video by Land Designs [...]
It is time to say good-bye to the wonderful and versatile Jelitto Perennial Seeds—at least in one sense. I’ll be clocking out, for the last time, at the end of [...]
Jack Schultz, News-Herald photo. There are few families in American horticulture with four generations of successful nursery crops. There are even fewer nursery legends with a story so [...]
For decades in a former garden, my bird-watching consisted of standing on my deck and pointing the trusty binocs at the bird houses in the wooded valley below. I can't [...]
Jerry Baker, the self-styled "America's Master Gardener" and highly successful huckster for home-remedy books and products died in March of this year at the age of 85. I was curious [...]
These were cheap and great from the botanical gardens sale. Not having even looked at any of the predictions or surveys regarding general gardening behavior, here is my [...]
The best kind of sustainability is to take a waste product and turn it into a valuable resource; to turn garbage, as it were, into gold. There’s a farm family [...]
Here are some sensible plantings at the Berkshire Botanical Gardens, a lovely site we happened upon on the way to Connecticut. It's the less famous sites that tend to [...]
Tesselaar’s Blue Storm Agapanthus is worth growing because it’s a high-impact, no-nonsense plant, not because it typifies the 2016 Color of the Year “Serenity” – photo credit: Tesselaar Plants, [...]
In honor of a day that doesn't deserve it (the horrid Black Friday), here are some gift suggestions for the gardener on your list or your own list of wants. [...]
I like the versatility of my BCS two-wheel tractor with all the different implements it can operate, but if I were shopping for a dedicated garden tiller, I would certainly [...]
The most useful, and versatile, gardening tool I own is my two-wheel BCS tractor. This Italian-made tractor was designed for small farms in hilly areas areas where riding on a [...]
