There is nothing like visiting a great garden to give you a jolt of inspiration and one that I like to visit every year is the garden at the Hotel Iroquois on Mackinac Island, Michigan. Before I even thought much about gardens I remember falling in love with an entire garden of huge alliums growing here. I think it’s what …
As you might have guessed, I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus. I had intended to do a bunch of posts before I left but I’m such a procrastinator that I was lucky I had time to throw my toothbrush in a bag, much less stock up on blog posts. In any case, a little vacation is always a …
‘Tis the season for garden walks and garden tours, and last week our master gardener group did a progressive dinner and garden tour of three members’ gardens. I love getting a peek at other people’s gardens. There is nothing like experiencing a garden firsthand to get great ideas to take home to your own garden. Pretty garden books are great, …
Pairing plants in the garden is one of the things I struggle with. I take heart in the fact that I think it takes a lot of gardeners a long time to get the knack of what looks best with what, and that the beauty of gardening is that you can (almost) always move plants around when things don’t work …
We had a big rain last night, and I’m a poor staker, so my beloved (and sparse) delphiniums all flopped. There is a good side to this, which is that I was free to cut them and bring them inside (I’m normally too tight to cut too many flowers). The rain also made a few of the Annabelle hydrangeas that …
It’s a good thing there is no social services organization that regulates garden care, because I would most certainly be under investigation. I’m really embarassed about it and I’m not sure how things slipped away quite so badly this year, but the current state of my garden is somewhere in the realm of reprehensible. For a time, this garden was …
I’ve been a bit lax in posting lately, but I can’t help it: The weather here has been so wonderful it would be criminal to spend any more time inside than necessary. Memorial Day weekend was probably the nicest I remember, maybe ever. And the plants are just as excited about this amazing spring and early summer as I am. …
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