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Choosing To Be Curious in The Garden
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” asked the poet, Mary Oliver in her 1990 poem “The Summer Day” “Catastrophizing.” Says the Modern, looking up from desk or...
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The Spring Hangover is Real. Cure It with Layered Planting.
In looking through hundreds of articles written over the last fifteen years – and particularly for those written at this time of year – I realize that I not only have a soft spot for May, but a blind...
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The Why Winter Garden Challenge. Join Me?
The day before Christmas, I was gathering colorful ‘Arctic Fire’ cornus twigs in the garden, and was feeling content about the fact that the surrounding scene wasn’t the winter wasteland it once had...
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Why I Don’t Want to Lose My ‘Ugly’ Snag
I never thought I could find joy in, much less love, a dead tree standing on my property, smack in the middle of otherwise pastoral views. But I not only love a dead tree, I’m distressed by the fact...
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Why I Use a Garden Auger to Plant Bulbs; And When It’s Not A Great Idea.
Yes, I know. We could have done with this post about two months ago. But two months ago I was planting bulbs and didn’t have time to write it. Still, there’s a good chance there are more than a few...
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Three Insider Tricks to Make a Sophisticated Natural Wreath This Season
December is upon us, the spirit is in the air, and you have an itch to try the whole wreath-making thing again. Except…you’ve never really nailed the art of wreath making. ‘Spindly’ and ‘amateurish’...
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How to Make Poncirus Marmalade from Hardy Oranges
If you grow the hardy orange (once Poncirus trifoliata, now Citrus trifoliata), and you cook, you’ve probably wondered whether or not you can use those pretty little orange fruits to make marmalade....
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#HouseplantVacation is Over For the Season. Here’s What to Do. And When.
I wrote this article originally for The National Garden Bureau, of which I’m a proud member. However, the info is so important, I asked to reprint it here for the benefit of my readers too . I hope...
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New Trick for an Old Gardener: Planning and Designing EXACTLY what I want.
Last weekend I started the process of becoming professionally serious about a small area west of my fenced kitchen garden. It’s functioned as a mini-wildflower meadow (and then general eyesore) for the...
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Using Grow Lights for Healthier Seedlings Doesn’t Need to Break the Bank
Inevitably, the time will arrive when many gardeners will consider starting their own seeds indoors. Perhaps it is the threat of being faced, once again, with only two tomato varieties at the big box...
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FLOODED!
I have received more than a few emails from readers wondering why I haven’t been more active on this blog over the last three months. And for some reason – guilt perhaps – the latest, thoughtful, “Is...
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Tough Plants for Tough Places
Three warrior species are battling for dominance on the hillside outside my kitchen window. It is a cliched phrase in the garden writer’s book of spells, but it is nonetheless apt. Tiny, passive – but...
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Building Habitat Nests for Wildlife…and For Me
Over the last two winters, I’ve been engaged in a curious pursuit which has baffled some visitors but thrilled others – precisely the way I love to garden. I’m building habitat nests – and it’s one of...
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My Love Hate Relationship With Snow
There are few things more magical than a snowfall, and few terms more overused to describe it. Nonetheless, the cliché communicates the outright miracle of slowing a world that refuses to slow itself....
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Top Ten Reasons to Pre-order Tropical Plants and How to Love Them!
Much work, much love and not a few moments of sheer panic have gone into the beautiful book that you now see up on the website and on Instagram and Facebook. The industry reviews from both the US and...
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Garden Resolutions: The Triumph of Hope Over Experience
The symbolic promise of a new year is not enough for me this time around. Normally happy to raise my glass and cheerfully throw out The Old as the clock ticks towards midnight, this year I am not so...
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The Pleasures and Perils of Young, Broke Gardens
To walk through a young garden in winter is a courageous act when the garden is your own, and the budget, diminutive. We forget how much frosting the active growing season naturally spreads over an...
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Let Your Garden Help You Decorate for The Holidays
At this time of year there is much advice floating around to “use natural materials” to create amazing holiday decorations cheaply. Indeed I’ve floated much of it myself. However, for the average...
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Taking Steps Toward Planting a Winter Garden
At the top of my driveway, slightly hidden on a south-facing slope that could less generously be termed a rocky mound, there is a small gathering of snowdrops and eranthis that in a few short months...
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Growing Windflowers for Late Season Color
Effusive, late-season displays of color become harder to come by as the days become cooler, which is why I enjoy growing the bright, carefree wands of windflower in my garden, and always make room for...
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