september open garden tour: a giant botanical birdfeeder
I WASN’T CERTAIN everyone else would share my enthusiasm about what really amounts to a giant birdfeeder: grasses and forbs [read more…]
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slideshow: june 7 garden-tour
RECIPE FOR A GARDEN TOUR: Shop ahead, then carefully clean and prep all ingredients and surfaces. Preset sky for sunshine; [read more…]
a walk in the woods with naturalist charley eiseman
I READ ABOUT a smartphone app the other day in the newspaper, one that’s meant to help ID things you [read more…]
slideshow: august garden open day
CAN ANYBODY RECOMMEND A LAWNCARE EXPERT? That was my first thought after 650 sets of feet marched on the garden [read more…]
slideshow: simple was best in the 2012 garden
IT WASN’T ONE OF THOSE “KA-POW!” YEARS in the garden, visually (well, unless you were my dear old rhubarb, above). [read more…]
parting-glances slideshow: late-october stars
YES, I KNOW: IT’S GETTING LATE. But among the parting glances of the fall garden, there are still some pretty [read more…]
slideshow: appreciating september's offerings
WITH THE FIRST COLD NIGHTS (we hit 41 degrees F Monday!) I’m suddenly invigorated–and overtaken by two impulses: to nest [read more…]
slideshow and podcast: august gratitude list
BROWN PATCHES of lawn and garden widen daily, and the “grass” is now a minefield of yellow-jacket nests. Ouch! But [read more…]
order bulbs now (but why i’m skipping crocus)
SUMMER, NOT FALL, is the best time to order flower bulbs for fall planting (and garlic bulbs, too) to get [read more…]
slideshow: name that flowering clematis vine!
I HAVE A LOT OF PLANTS (and a lot more that used to grow here somewhere live on in memory). [read more…]
a bromeliad centerpiece, and the man who planted my first shrubs 20+ years ago
I WENT SHOPPING SATURDAY at a giant annual plant fair nearby, making a beeline to the bromeliad department, a.k.a. the [read more…]
garden-tour aftermath: the asked-about plants
I AM ALWAYS FASCINATED to hear what visitors comment or ask about on Garden Open Days, the first of which [read more…]
new: what's growing at your place? share a photo!
FOR YEARS I HAVE WANTED to be able to see your gardens, too, and the to-do item labeled “get public [read more…]
the frogs of march: hot and heavy from the start
SWIMSUIT SEASON got under way last week in near-80 degree weather, but I hope the wide-awake amphibian darlings out back [read more…]
spring or winter: which is it this funny february?
SPRING OR WINTER? Who knows–certainly not the garden, or the weather, which is running hot-and-cold, literally, as it has all [read more…]
