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.
courtyard
May ’26: Real live gardening
At long last.
my garden
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.)
my garden
Suddenly, it’s veg season!
And I’ve got a makeshift container garden to sort out.
almanac
April ’26: The pink and green of it all
What a joy, after the winter that was.
courtyard
Sometimes gardening looks like painting and building
An Infrastructure Month update.
plants
Playing Favorites: The unfairly maligned Lady Violet
She’s beautiful, assertive, even edible — what’s not to love?
almanac
March ’26: It’s all happening!
Goodbye asphalt, hello leaflets — things are finally in motion.