Nature, wildlife, and how gardening affects the environment.
The bubbling fountain came last, the watery finish to a wonderfully sunny day spent playing in the dirt. Sure, spring had officially arrived a few days earlier, but to me [...]
In a recent post I revealed the uptick in "pollinator action" in my townhouse front garden, thanks to suggestions that GardenRant readers made (to this post) for more critter-friendly annuals [...]
Does YOUR town have English ivy covering trees in its most prominent public spots? Well, MINE SURE DOES, which I finally got sick of looking at and decided to do [...]
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 [...]
In late November last year I took myself to Japan to visit some gardens. My itinerary was created from three sources: the rather ridiculously titled 1001 Gardens you must [...]
You want to grab a seat early when Carol Reese comes to town for a talk. She can a throw an entertaining stemwinder soaked with humor. The woman’s got [...]
Maybe the biggest miracle of all is that there is enough bounty, beauty, and love for everyone if we tend our world as we tend our gardens.
It’s beginning to look a lot like a green Christmas here in Buffalo and nobody’s complaining. Not after last December’s blizzard. My husband and I were lucky. We were home, [...]
We know a lot more these days about how our gardens can support (or harm) wildlife and, like no doubt many of you, I'm leaving as many leaves in place [...]
I wore a Davy Crockett coonskin hat as a kid and played in the neighborhood woods, singing “King of the Wild Frontier.” Davy Crockett, the song tells us, was born [...]
Concern for pollinators is getting a lot of attention these days, thankfully, but are all the pollinator-supporting programs equally good? As in, supported by science and actually effective? One glaring [...]
If you recall my rant about the utterly sterile, sad graveyard I noticed in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in this post I'm raving about the exact opposite cemetery. Its founder envisioned [...]
