Many thanks to Shirl of Shirl’s Gardenwatch for coming up with a great idea for a community activity: The Desert Island Plant Challenge. The concept of a warm desert island – as compared to the frozen wasteland we call Pennsylvania in January – sounds awfully good right now! We get to pick any three plants[...]
I consider myself a plant geek, and somewhat of a computer geek, but a math geek I’m definitely not. Numbers are not my friends. Generally, that’s not a problem in the mostly non-numeric world of gardening. Apart from having to remember a few simple measurements and conversion factors, I figured I’d be free of complicated[...]
Figuring out how to handle labeling is one of those ever-puzzling aspects of gardening. Do you keep the tags your plants come with, filling your garden with dozens or hundreds of bits of plastic? Do you replace them with something prettier or more creative? Do you tape them into a special garden notebook, so you[...]
Whether you’ve been gardening for most of your years or have come to it somewhat later in life, you likely have some memory of a garden-related experience from childhood. It may be of grueling summer afternoons spent weeding or mowing, or it may be more pleasant recollections of playing by a garden pond by the[...]
If you’ve picked up an American gardening magazine or any of a number of gardening books over the years, there’s a good chance you’ve seen and enjoyed some of Rob Cardillo’s outstanding garden photography. If you’re interested in learning a little more about the man behind the camera, check out this great article in today’s[...]