Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Few readers have an appetite for winter when spring is currently doing all the things that spring does in all of the ways spring does them. But for those who [...]
“I garden with two main motivations: to encourage wildlife and to grow edibles.” You will all hate me for this, but this appeared on my screen and my heart plummeted. [...]
Spring, you say? Tell that to my snow-covered patio furniture and the frozen mound of earth covering last week's front garden excavations. Tell that to my friend Kathy, who just [...]
Legend has it that Inuit have more than 100 words for snow. A friend told us yesterday that we need a similar number of words for gardening. She had just [...]
Hellebores and daffodils in late winter, with leaves covering them removed. Photo and garden by Marianne Willburn. I've written about the new messaging we gardeners are receiving - [...]
This, too, will pass. But for now, I deliberately avoid looking out our front windows or even walking past the front of the house. It is a mess. The dysfunction [...]
Years ago I was chastised by my managers for giving nursery customers too much information. In their opinion, although no complaints were ever made, it was inappropriate for an employee [...]
Many years ago The Financial Times sent me to do a feature on the RHS ‘Flower Show’ at Tatton Park . I was totally naïve and had no idea what [...]
A colorful, fragrant, delicious planting in summer. A garden plays to the human condition, offering a sensory indulgence that sparks curiosity, engages memory, and tickles connection. For most [...]
The nature of gardening means that I'm never short of time to think. At this time of year I find myself consciously searching gardens for signs of life, carving out [...]
by Guest Ranter Hannah Karena Jones There are a number of noble reasons to replace a lawn with flowers: supporting pollinators and birds, increasing biodiversity, lowering your carbon footprint. I’m [...]
January is a strange month. I start out having just finished my only actual 'holiday' of the year and it feels like rather a struggle to get going on gardening [...]
