Why I Garden
Why do I garden? Why does an artist paint? Why does a pianist spend days practicing for an hour long concert? The truth is, I don’t know why I garden. I don’t know why I have an affinity for plants, a need to see them thrive, a hungering for their beauty. As a child, I was content to lie on my bed, reading, while the other children

Horticulture Magazine Lists Their Twenty Favorite Garden Blogs
I was named as one of Horticulture’s favorite garden blogs–many thanks!

Adenophora and Its Evil Twin Revisited
Campanula rapunculoides: Good looking but hardly innocent A while back I wrote an essay for Horticulture detailing my attempt to figure out the difference between ladybells and creeping bellflower, and I wrote up a

Still Blooming: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2009
I was going to blather on about how this November was milder than last, but when I checked, I discovered that’s what I said last November, too! It was more typically cold in November 2007; however, the larches had more needles left at that time than they do this year. Not sure why that is. Thanksgiving Cactus

Planting Tulips, Part 2
Yesterday I told you how I finally realized species tulips planted in the peony bed would help to bridge the bloom gap of late spring. I got the tulips chosen and purchased, and now I’m going to show you how I planted them. The Smartest Way to Plant 150 Tulip Bulbs