I’ve been a bit lax in posting lately, but I can’t help it: The weather here has been so wonderful it would be criminal to spend any more time inside than necessary. Memorial Day weekend was probably the nicest I remember, maybe ever. And the plants are just as excited about this amazing spring and early summer as I am. ...
Few days are so bad that coming home to find this sitting on your porch doesn’t make you forget all your troubles: And the only thing more fun than tearing into that box, is tearing into that box when you have no idea what’s inside. I’m participating in the Proven Winners garden writers plant trials, so the nice folks over ...
I’ve spent most of my free time this week studying. I’ve been spending a lot of time with this book: In my experience the guides published by DK are the best around, particularly their travel guides which cost much more than their competitors but are so much better, particularly for places where you don’t speak the language. (They show pictures ...
We only have one flowering tree in the yard. It’s a Serviceberry, which is a lovely, tough-as-nails small tree or large shrub. It’s commonly seen around here in its multi-trunked form in parking lots, hellstrips and other places where it can be planted and left. In our yard it’s the corner piece to what I call the “main” garden, and ...
I’m a bit obsessed with window boxes these days. I think they are so charming and can cure a multitude of house exterior sins. If I were selling a house, I think a window box would be right up there on the must-do list for curb appeal. So, you might wonder, why am I just now putting a window box ...
I received my first shipment from the Yahoo plant buying co-op I’m a member of on Monday. I love it when a box full of plants comes. Because many of the co-ops are sold long before their shipping dates, I often forget what I ordered. It’s like Christmas when I open up those little baby plants. I didn’t have the ...
Some of you might remember last year when I was lusting after this compost bin from Lee Valley Tools. After living with a dilapidated compost bin (made in about 25 minutes several years ago with four pallets and a set of hinges) for about a year, what finally made me spring for the new system was our furnace. Confused? ...
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