Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
I reside in downtown Jeffersonville, Indiana now It’s different. I had lived and gardened previously in nearby rural Depauw. It would seem the old saw about change being the [...]
I am discovering more and more often that it is important to have a great many seats in the garden. In fact there should probably be one every three feet [...]
The central Kentucky dogwoods had barely finished blooming in early May when horticulturist, author, and speaker Abra Lee tipped me off to Camille T. Dungy’s new book, Soil: The [...]
There are a few sayings about weeds. The favorite one is that weeds are just plants in the wrong place. Or plants the gardener doesn’t want. Or that we need [...]
Guest post by Susan Dieterlen I should know better, but I’ve planted radishes again. In this my 40th year of growing vegetables, I can count on one hand the number [...]
It is that brief, thrilling time when my front garden blazes with color - well, at least to me it blazes. Anyone walking by will note clumps of species tulips, [...]
Last Sunday, we stopped at a local market to pick up vegetables for dinner. It was a rainy warmish day, with temps in the mid-to-high 50s. As we were entering [...]
And right then, before I can forget, I find my calendar app, scroll to some random date in August, and type, "Order more daffs."
What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? The immortal first lines from the poem 'Leisure' by W.H. Davies, published in 1911. [...]
Being a stone kinda guy, I spent a few happy hours the other day rescuing a rock garden just outside our shaded side door that had been buried in time, [...]
"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come" --James Thomson Typical spring skies in the Pacific Northwest Funny, I always remember the above quote as “ethereal madness” … and am [...]
It’s true that there are certain words in the English vocabulary that evoke a very predictable response. In the case of gardeners, it’s the F- word. Don't panic. This is [...]
