the healing garden
The first time I saw an herb garden I thought it weird. Why would one want to waste so much...
The country garden relies on scent just as much as it does on color and texture. Gertrude Jekyll popularized this...
Most herbs love sunshine, as is fitting for the dwellers of the open plains and windswept limestone cliffs of the...
I always plant tulips. I’ve had beautiful ruffled pink ones, and fringed parrot ones, standard, double, lily flowering, you name...
February is not the loveliest of months, but it has one redeeming quality: it’s seed starting time. Depending on your...
The thing about hyacinths is that they don’t need special care, they need the conditions they have become accustomed to:...
Most years, the buttercups are the first spring bulbs to bloom, and this one was no exception. It’s hard to...
February weather is so predictable. The second you get comfortable with the balmy temperatures, a winter storm is sure to...
Please admire the mighty sage, which took over the herb garden during the summer, before I trim its expansionist habits....
Growing a perennial garden places one in the weird circumstance of having to work around the clock without actually planting...