Judging by my overflowing email inbox this weekend, I guess holiday shopping season is fully upon us, and that means that it’s time for a few gift guides. And I’m starting it off with my… [Continue Reading]
Now’s the time to plan for next year’s garden
Well, it’s time to think about next year’s garden. I can hear what you’re thinking: But Erin, you haven’t even finished cleaning up this year’s garden! Aren’t you still trying to get a fence up… [Continue Reading]
How to suck the ambition out of a gardener
Well this was not in my plan. An early season snowfall has put a damper on my fall gardening plans and even worse, it has pretty much killed any desire I have to be in… [Continue Reading]
Plant to know: Birchleaf spirea
More than once I’ve written here about the misconceptions I had about spirea. For a time it was, to me, the most boring of shrubs, the least interesting of what I call the “landscaper’s trio”… [Continue Reading]
Weekend Finds
Bulb planting continues for me. I’ve been a bit pokey about it this year, just because the lack of a mid-fall warmup has me running a bit frantic in the garden. There’s lots of cleanup… [Continue Reading]
A changing, and challenged, landscape
We’ve been enjoying a particularly beautiful fall here. Beautiful not in terms of weather, as gray days have far outnumbered those crisp, sunny fall days with royal blue skies, but the trees have put an… [Continue Reading]
The autumn garden: Beautifully alive and definitely dead
We’ve had several frosts now (Indian Summer, where are you?) so the garden is a mishmosh of dead and alive right now. Some things are looking great and so much else is looking terrible. I’ve… [Continue Reading]
