books
Book Shelf: ‘A Gardener’s Mindset’ by Stephen Orr
The next best thing to actual over-the-fence gardening conversation.
Karen Templer
tips
One garden tool to rule them all
How and why to use a hori hori knife for gardening.
plants
Playing Favorites: Bowman’s Root
What a pleasant surprise this unassuming beauty turned out to be.
my garden
My unscheduled garden staycation
Scenes from a journey I’ll never regret.
courtyard
This is my Christmas morning
A couple of my best sources for you, along with my native plant windfall.
tips
Hot Tip: ‘Potting up’ as crop succession
Or, how to transplant plants with the least root disruption.
almanac
May ’26: Real live gardening
At long last.
courtyard
New plan: The fruit garden
Some ideas are more persistent than others.
courtyard
Playing Favorites: The serviceberry
As in the plant, amelanchier, not the book. (Although I love that too.)
books
Book Shelf: Truly stunning ‘Wonderlands’
A big, beautiful repository of glorious garden photos
my garden
Suddenly, it’s veg season!
And I’ve got a makeshift container garden to sort out.
plants
Lilies of the mountain
Stumbling across native spring ephemerals in the wild.