Back in the old days—before Blotanical, before the first garden blogs, even before the first on-line gardening forums—getting involved in local garden clubs and national gardening organizations was one of the best ways to connect with other obsessed gardeners. Blogging now gives us practically instant access to each other and lets us “visit” other gardeners[...]
Nancy’s post about fun annuals got me thinking about a few of my own must-haves. I experiment with loads of annuals, tender perennials and tropicals every season, and am in deep zonal denial. I’m always on the lookout for bold or colorful (or, better still, bold and colorful) foliage, bright floral colors, and plants that[...]
That’s what they called our neck of Farmington, Connecticut back in the day, when stagecoaches rumbled through a notch near our ridgetop home on their way down to the Farmington Valley. The old coaches must have made a lot of noise, but today the main sound we hear is the 3 pm call of a[...]
On this day of remembrance for an extraordinary historical figure, I came upon Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco which houses a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. The exquisite use of water in this memorial is a powerful reminder of Martin Luther King’s eternal legacy as well as the power, beauty and eloquence of one[...]
The recent abundance of posts about seed catalogs, along with the overabundance of catalogs in my own mailbox, has gotten me seriously thinking about my own orders for the upcoming season. I love trying new plants each year, of course, but as I’m sure many of you do, I also have some old favorites that[...]