Helping Gardeners Grow

It is a dazzling fall day. I am walking in the frost-dusted grass and thinking about leaving, among other things, the ...

Sometimes it is the unplanned garden combinations that turn me on the most.   I planted the Pink Zazzle (a hybrid gomphrena of secre...

The cherry laurels in my neighborhood are not looking good. Chinese Euonymus and Japanese Aucubas are a bit haggard also. Where the...

--> This week last year I harvested five pounds of baby lettuce, two pounds of spinach, two pounds of hakurei turnips, and t...

When it comes to holidays, I'm a minimalist—which makes what I'm about to do entirely out of character. I am going to offer my li...

After the first serious frost the mulberry leaves on the tortured tree in my back yard—the one that is destined for the ...

In one of the last episodes of “Sex and the City,” the writers slipped a sardonic chuckle into an otherwise serious story. Momentous life d...