MANY PEOPLE THRILL at a sunny day in the garden, but if photographing the landscape and its plants is your pursuit, as it is Ken Druse’s, you take the contrarian view. “I love overcast,” says Ken, and “drizzle” is another favorite forecast for the author of 18 garden books, whose camera has taken him to more gardens than most of us will see in a lifetime. Ken shared some of his top garden-photography tips in a Q&A interview and this week’s public-radio show and podcast (and I was the guest on Ken’s show this last week, on another topic altogether…more on both on the jump page). [read more…]
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garden photography 101, with ken druse
May 13, 2013 By 8 Comments
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the march garden chores: 2013
February 28, 2013 By 15 Comments
VOICES. VISITS. VARIABILITY. That’s how I can tell it’s March. A few feathered musicians are practicing in the pit the last week here, warming up while they wait for everyone else to show up and get in tune. As if on cue, the Eastern chipmunks—light hibernators—are suddenly fully awake and at their antics, trying to remember where the heck they stashed that last cache of goodies. Hungry! Yes, it’s March: Time to “be up, be doing,” as my mother used to say. Time to get at the garden cleanup—or at least anytime the highly variable (chaotic?) weather permits, that is. [read more…]
the february garden chores: 2013
January 31, 2013 By 14 Comments
I AM STIFLING URGES over here—and maybe that’s what February is about, especially in the Northern garden. Keep calm—but don’t carry on, at least not until the signals are all aligned, please. I blame the expert seduction performed on me by seed catalogs for most of my fidgeting right now, that and the noticeably longer days and strengthening angle of the sun. Those big teases are combining to make me want to start seeds, but let’s think about that and other possible to-do’s carefully together, shall we? [read more…]
i’m on plant delights’ cover, but no, you cannot order a potful of me
January 15, 2013 By 6 Comments
I SEEM TO HAVE ACHIEVED a new level of connection (resemblance?) to things that photosynthesize: I am finally one of the colorful faces on the cover of a plant catalog—the new Plant Delights catalog, specifically. But no, I have not been tissue-cultured or otherwise propagated, and am not for sale. (To see the image big, click over to the jump page.) [read more…]
the top 50 stories of 2012
December 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment
SO WHAT CAUGHT YOUR ATTENTION most of all in 2012, among the 1,200-ish stories on A Way to Garden so far? Well, apparently it was these, the 50 stories you clicked on most during the year, A Way to Garden’s fifth online:
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