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rainwater harvesting

Harvesting the rain doesn’t stop at installing rain barrels, it involves the entire garden and its principal goal is to...

easy color schemes

Unless it was designed that way, it is kind of hard to impose a color scheme on an established garden,...

what a mess!

You will not believe the level of chaos nature can impose on a reasonably well tended garden in three weeks....

about watering

Shortly after I took this picture a powerful summer storm started, and not a moment too soon, I was a...

the makings of a vegetable garden

Even for those of us with a more relaxed attitude towards garden design, a vegetable garden demands discipline. For one,...

full spring

After the annuals and veggies were moved to their permanent location, the flower beds cleaned and the perennials spruced up,...

peonies

The peonies would have bloomed by now, the buds have been ready to burst for more than a week, but...

seedlings

This year spared us the usual unpleasantness: no hard freezes, no long stretches of unholy temperatures, no weird weather swings....

I’m late, I’m late!

I need to speed up the garden planning if I don’t want the roses to leaf out before I get...

out of focus

out of focus

The weather is fickle, leaning on the side of bright and sunny right now. It rained hard yesterday, and the...