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Tomato Harvest

Judging by the yield table, this year I planted a tomato garden. Sure I started with a variety of vegetables, but that was...

June Heat

The garden is six weeks ahead, it’s been so warm! In the unseasonable heat the midsummer flowers are pressing ahead: lilies, hostas, bee balms, daisies,...

Gifts of the Sun

I would like to tell you a story about a gardener who grew up in the city. In her late...

Lily Pons

After last year’s frigid winter I feared I lost the tea roses, whose canes are not as winter hardy as the shrub varieties’. With a...

Peas

There is an amazing quality vegetables have to mature unnoticed right under your nose until one morning you look closer...

Lavender

Since plant foliage usually doesn’t come in lavender gray, even for lavender itself, and this is the first time lavender...

Love-in-a-Mist

Because of the very late start of the season the annuals are a few weeks behind schedule. Not the tomatoes, mind you, they tower...

The Garden in May

Perennial gardens look their best in May. It is the month of peonies and roses, irises and bleeding hearts. Everything...

Radiant Skin

Three major factors contribute to the health of your skin: good nutrition and general wellbeing, good conditioning and removing dead cells and impurities. Good nutrition and...

Wound Healers

There are two strong antiseptics directly extracted from plants: one is tea tree oil, only found in the leaves of the Australian plant, and the...