Lessons from a Portland Hellstrip
Garden touring season has given way to what I’m learning to treat as a second dormant period here in the high desert: the extreme heat of midsummer. And how convenient that is, ...
Lawns in the News, and Flower-Arranging Comes to PBS
TV Show about Lawns in Development We’ve been ranting for years now about the dearth of gardening shows on TV, so imagine my surprise to hear there’s a new show about lawns ...
Not so smug in a beautiful, hard-won country garden
Of the thirteen-plus acres they own in the exurban wilds of outer Hamburg in Western New York, Mike and Kathy Shadrack garden only about three and a half, but these cultivated areas ...
“Big Name” Gardening Website Coming Soon
Recently this message went out to the Yahoo group of one of Washington’s tonier neighborhoods, with the title “Beautiful perennial garden in back yard needed for TV Commercial.” Would anyone be interested ...
The Theosophic Turtle
10 interconnected large rain barrels, with an approximate 98,000 gallons capacity, supply all of the water needs for the Turtles and their farm. Adam Turtle may have been restless at times, but ...
Natives – A Moving Target?
Will the wild orchids in my woods survive the changes of the next half century? There was a certain irony in the timing, given America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement. ...
