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,...
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,...
Perennial gardens look their best in May. It is the month of peonies and roses, irises and bleeding hearts. Everything...
Here is next year’s garden, well, at least part of it, anyway. The seeds will go into labeled little bags and...
The country garden relies on scent just as much as it does on color and texture. Gertrude Jekyll popularized this garden...
The garden is still hesitating, the larger flowers haven’t sprung yet but the tiny ones coverthe flower beds with a cheerful patchwork of mostly...
Most gardeners, sometimes not knowingly, have an idealized image of what a garden should be and aspire to recreate it, slightly altered...
The garden wore blue and white flowers for Easter, really pretty and fresh in the sunlight. The blue-eyed Marys dressed the soil under the crab apple tree in delicate...
I can’t figure out the precise point when a fast spreading plant becomes a ground cover. Some, like ivy, periwinkle...
I don’t even know how this picture happened, there is so much sunshine in the vegetable garden that getting such...