As a gardener and a garden writer, I enjoy taking photos of plants, in all their stages of growth (and sometimes demise). Most photos I take for my own record-keeping, …
So many Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera) owners are frustrated during the holidays when there isn’t a bloom in sight on their plants. What they don’t know is that they should have …
Gardeners know the absolute joy of tasting a homegrown tomato, bitten into, right off the vine. It’s why so many of us turn our noses up at those tasteless things …
Everyone who gardens with raised beds can attest that they are pretty great. For many of us, it might be the only way we can garden with subpar soil in …
August has always struck me as a weird month. It’s a month of impatient transition. We’re still dealing with the scorching temperatures of summer; the countertop is hidden beneath a …
Now and then, you pick up a product, not expecting much and lo and behold, it turns out to be pretty darn great. Naturally, you tell friends and family about …
One of the things I’m becoming more aware of about gardening is how much it is a continuum. Like a talent show in which contestants follow one another – and …
When you think about something as old as gardening, rarely do you think of the word “trendy.” But just like with everything else, trends pop up in the gardening community. …
You’d be hard pressed to find a showier flower in your garden than a dahlia. With their colorful heads full of neatly arrayed petals, their blooms that never stop, and …
I was reading a gardening magazine recently, which proclaimed that September is the most productive month in the garden. With veggies basically jumping into our harvest baskets, there’s little arguing …
Whether you’re holding on to the last few weeks of summer for dear life or praying for it to hurry up and end, one thing is clear – August begins …
For me, August is the month of lunching al fresco in the garden, a fresh meal sandwiched between getting a suntan in the morning and sipping cocktails on the terrace …
Crop rotation is the practice of rotating the types of vegetables you grow in a given section of your garden each year. The idea behind it is to reduce the …
Did you know you might be contributing to the spread of diseases in your garden? We all like to think we would never be so careless. After all, we spend …
Isn’t it funny how, as gardeners, our favorite thing to grow is often the most problematic? I probably don’t even need to say it to know we’re all thinking about …
Moving your orchids outside for the summer is the easiest way to encourage new flower spikes, leaf and root development. If you’re struggling to get your orchid to bloom again, …
Japanese spirea is a beautiful addition to any landscape, with its fluffy pink clouds of flowers. That is, until those fluffy pink clouds turn into crusty brown clusters, which are …
Last month, I bought a propane weed torch. Yes, it’s as awesome as it sounds. No, it’s not at all complicated to use. And yes, it does a great job …
Last year, I moved into a new home and inherited what used to be flower beds. They were all choked and overgrown with weeds. So, when I made the decision …
It’s summertime and the living is easy. For someone. Somewhere. Or at least that’s what the song says. In my neck of the woods, I’m sweating like crazy, up to …
In a classic tale of taking over someone else’s choices when you buy a place, when we moved into our current home and garden, I inherited a rose plant. I …
When was the last time you had a tomato that was absolute perfection? I’m talking about the kind where you put great slabs of it on a BLT, and as …
Where I live, columbine grows wild all over the mountains. I see it when I’m out hiking, and I feel as though I’ve stumbled into a fairytale. I fully expect …
Alliums are stunning in the late spring and early summer garden. Their tall, architectural blooms hover over the rest of the flowers like purple fireworks. They’re the kind of blooms …
You’ve been planning for this day since late winter, poking cream-colored seeds into the dirt. You encouraged them under their grow lights when they were skinny little seedlings. Then, when …