Seedlings come up in the darndest places We need to address the poor manners of some of the plants around this garden. I don't want to point trowels in any particular direction but I believe doing so …
Hennessy leads to the search for Houdyshel
Knock Out Rose, I don't think Hennessey would approve I found Roy Hennessey unexpectedly the other evening while reading What There is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and …
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Gardening on the Edge
Where are the thrills of gardening? Where are the chills? The excitement? Where can you walk the tightrope of the garden, where one ill-timed freeze could cause a bloom to fall off and become …
Leave the last of the blooms
Tempting to pick, but leave it for the garden fairies. "Leave the last of the blooms for the garden fairies." Thus the old saying* goes. For if you don't... do you really want to know what happens, …
What does it do?
"What does it do?" is a question a friend of mine often asks me when she goes with me to a garden center. As we walk among the trees and shrubs, I'm thinking Fothergill gardenii, great fall foliage, …
Frost tickles, freeze slaps
Frost tickled the garden yesterday morning and from what I could tell, very little seemed to be affected other than maybe the pepper plants in the vegetable garden, which were calling it quits …
