Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Do you feel you don’t have the nerve, time or skill to germinate perennial seeds? Don’t worry. You’re not alone. Step right this way. I’m going to show you [...]
I have developed a strong antipathy for the term ‘winter interest’ in garden writing. Do we truly have nothing better to say about winter gardens or the plants growing in [...]
I heard an interview, more than 25 years ago, with writer Reynolds Price, who was asked what his most important life lesson was while growing up in rural North [...]
The day before Christmas, I was gathering colorful ‘Arctic Fire’ cornus twigs in the garden, and was feeling content about the fact that the surrounding scene wasn’t the winter wasteland [...]
I live across the street from a deer-infested forest, so naturally my little townhouse garden has seen their effects. Annuals, like the Iresine and sweet potato vine formally looking fabulous [...]
In the past, I tried different systems—various word files, spreadsheets, folders filled with dirty plant tags, and more. But none of these worked. They depended on following up after a day in the garden, or keeping tags or notes in some kind of order. File under "Never Had a Chance."
I'll always have a childlike wonder for snow days. I have friends who have mastered the art of overwintering plants in our quixotic Pacific Northwest climate. They carefully [...]
I find trees very exciting. As a species humans are used to looking down on things that are smaller than us: shrubs, bulbs, herbaceous plants etc. We marvel at big [...]
A Guest Rant by Heather Tuckman Plantrum /ˈplan-trəm/: The act of impulsively destroying plants out of unrestrained frustration. As a gardener, I have a problem; I am prone to temper [...]
It's been a long week. The nights are drawing in and the mornings are gloomy. The sky has been a particularly dreary grey most days, a shroud of dull cloud [...]
It’s a time for many gardeners when, despite our best efforts and wildest hopes, everything is winding down. During the coming weekends - the only time I have to work [...]
Marianne has recently spent considerable time and effort sprucing up our shop page and making it useful for you. It now contains a page telling you what tools each [...]
