I’ve just come off the first few presentations of a talk I’m doing on some of the best new plants you’ll find in garden centers this year and spending all that time looking at new… [Continue Reading]
A LAVENDER-LINED PATH DREAMED FULFILLED
The long path that now extends all the way to the garage was originally a short path that cut through an existing garden when we first bought our house. At the time, I’d never planted… [Continue Reading]
PLANT DEATH HAPPENS; GARDENING GOES ON
Plant death happens. But it sort of stinks when it happens to you. Every spring I check in with all my plants. It doesn’t take but a minute: Dead or alive? Sometimes it takes some… [Continue Reading]
THREE PLANTS I’LL GROW THIS YEAR
Much of the past decade of gardening at my house has been an alternating pattern of creating new gardens and improving existing gardens. A couple years ago I realized that I probably have as much… [Continue Reading]
FRIDAY FINDS
I’m on a really good streak with books. I’m reading Dear Friend and Gardener: Letters on Life and Gardening and although I’m only halfway through it (I’m taking my time with it, savoring every page),… [Continue Reading]
A FANTASTIC JUNE IN THE GARDEN
Last week I had to go to Newport, Rhode Island, for work, and although business travel isn’t high on the list of things I want to be doing in summer, it was a pleasure to… [Continue Reading]
FIVE PERENNIALS I’D NEVER BE WITHOUT
I have had a lot of favorite/top posts in the works and was planning to run them over the course of a week, but this is my 600th post on this blog so I thought… [Continue Reading]
