While in Buffalo, NY for Buffa10, I posted a little piece on water features and received an email from one of many of Buffalo’s excellent gardeners, inviting me to see his garden and water …
When A Flower Blooms That You Just Don’t Like: Happy Ending
The logistics are a bit complicated, but they involved two twin mattresses, my truck, some passalong hostas, finding a window of opportunity (WOO) to haul the mattresses from my sister-in-law to my …
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Planting By The Signs of the Moon
As we look back 40 years ago to the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969, our thoughts turn to gardening, as they always do.I remember where I was when Neil Armstrong first stepped onto that …
The Night Bloomer Blooms!
When the night bloomer blooms, all other activity for the evening comes to a halt or at least slows down enough so that I can run to the sunroom every ten minutes or so to take another picture.Excuse …
Letters to Gardening Friends, June 21, 2009
Dear Dee and Mary Ann and gardening friends everywhere,Greetings from my garden! On this first day of summer, it seems fitting that I picked the last of the peas and then the first of the hot peppers …
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If I’m Remembering Right…
If I’m remembering right, it seems that my Dad always managed to have a ripe tomato around Father’s Day, in this same hardiness zone that I am gardening in. Whether that memory is right or wrong, …
