Lifestyles

Gardeners questions

Over the years, I’ve gotten lots of questions about gardening. Most are the usual ones — when to ...

Lifestyles

Tomato mania

You’ve heard of Crimson Tide? Well, last month I had a red tide running through my kitchen. Way ...

Lifestyles

The gardener and the wedding: Part II

The wedding is fast approaching — Labor Day weekend. Invitations have been sent, responses have been tallied, accommodations ...

Lifestyles

Luxurious food

Mention luxurious food and most people think of heaping servings of beluga caviar, raw sea urchins, foie gras, ...

Lifestyles

The lazy gardener

I don’t know exactly how it happened, but, at nearly 72, I find myself managing two homes and ...

Lifestyles

Moss: Going with the flow

Some gardeners have very inflexible opinions about how their gardens should look; they insist on imposing their will ...

Lifestyles

The gardener and the wedding: Part I

In most families when a daughter brings home a serious boyfriend and announces her engagement, there is an ...

Lifestyles

The art of keeping plants alive

About every six weeks, I get a text from someone I know. It contains only a photo of ...

Lifestyles

Pass-along garden

We gardeners just naturally share plants. In fact, it’s not unusual for someone to have what’s fondly known ...

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After the storm

January is usually all about reading seed catalogs by a roaring fire and making endless wish lists of ...

Lifestyles

Procrastination and the shortest day of the year

It’s early December and the shortest day of the year is upon us. The air is frosty before ...

Lifestyles

Those crazy plant people

We plant people tend to be a crazy, obsessive bunch. We plant the same variety of tomato that ...

Lifestyles

Eat local: Grow your own

Go to just about any restaurant these days and you’re likely to hear a recitation of the origins ...

Lifestyles

A tale of a swale

Generally, I don’t get involved in moving earth to change the lay of the land when I garden. ...

Lifestyles

Curing the August doldrums

It was unspeakably hot and dry, and then we got lots of rain. My hostas look as if ...

Lifestyles

Roses and garden envy

It’s true. Garden envy is a terrible thing, but I admit that I have a serious case. My ...

Lifestyles

It’s June: Take a break

The early spring madness of clean up, pot up, sow seeds, moan about dead plants, and rush around ...

Lifestyles

Mock orange: An old favorite for today’s garden

Many years ago, everyone’s grandma had several mock orange bushes in her garden. They were used to mark ...

Columns

Bletilla: A Tough Orchid for the Home Garden

People tend to think of orchids as fragile, showy tropical plants that are too finicky for home gardeners. ...

Columns

Allium ‘Millenium’: 2018 Perennial of the Year

There are several groups that name perennial plants of the year, but the announcement I always watch for ...

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Gazing into my crystal ball: gardening trends for 2018

A New Year and a new opportunity for gardening. What more could anyone want. January is when the ...

Columns

Bringing in the sheaves: Part II

By late fall, the pace of life on the farm had slowed to an almost leisurely pace. Sure, ...

Columns

Heresy in the garden

Full disclosure upfront: this column is about disagreeing with conventional wisdom and the politically correct. It’s full on ...

Columns

A new trend: Houseplants as pets

According to conventional wisdom and some research, having a pet generally makes people calmer and healthier. Pets encourage ...

Columns

Bringing in the sheaves

When I was a kid, late summer/early fall meant harvest time — black eyed peas, purple hulls, the ...

Columns

Meet the cleomes

Have you met the cleomes? They’re old, favorite garden plants that are enjoying renewed interest. The heirloom “Rose ...

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It’s important to eat your greens

I might have gotten carried away when I planted the early spring garden this year. I always plant lettuce, ...

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