Rainy days and Mondays, according to an old Carpenters’ song, always get folks down. Guess it’s even worse when you get a twofer, and it rains on a Monday. But my friend Chrissie D’Esopo makes the most of it. Her amazing Avon, CT garden–a color-drenched collection of many thousands of annuals–is on tour this weekend, so she’s pampering petunias[...]
Oh yeah, I got it. Geegaws, doodads, tchotchkes–yeah, I got whimsy. I think whimsy should be a part of every garden. Gardens are about many things, but they are certainly about delight, about fun, about creating a treat for the eyes. Actually, they should transcend those simple goals and be a treat for all the[...]
Late spring became blazing summer this past week, and temps in the 90s, coupled with a dearth of rain, put an early end to much of the mid-June bloom. But the show goes on, here’s a sampler: There’s a kind of faded glory to the going-by blooms of Ageratum ‘Blue Horizon’ that makes them hard[...]
It’s still cold here. And we’ve got an unseasonably cool week ahead, and that means I have wait even longer to get my tender seedlings and other heat lovers into the ground. So I’m even more happy about owning what has become an indispensible tool for me in early spring: A pop-up greenhouse. I set the[...]
I was in Long Island over the weekend, to give a lecture in Southampton. Luckily, I had an intrepid host who took me garden touring even though it was a near monsoon. We went to a Long house Reserve, a private garden in the midst of making the transition to a public space. It was a[...]