If a garden does not look good in May and June, it will never look good. I have heard that phrase, read it, and even said it many times over the years. It stays current because it’s true-at least most of the time. If your landscape is like mine, full of a lot of spring-flowering … Read more
Spring is, without a doubt, the busiest time of the gardening year. Everything seems to burst into new life in the same short span of time. Plants grow at exponential rates. Weeds spring up even faster than that, especially onion grass. As if that isn’t bad enough, winter debris lurks everywhere and must be ferreted … Read more
Every year there is a moment in February when the urge to garden hits me with a vengeance. That moment has arrived. Now I have to decide what do to about it. This winter has given our part of the world weeks of mild, gray weather, followed by one bad snowstorm, followed by a short … Read more
If a garden does not look good in May and June, it will never look good. I have heard that particular aphorism at least a thousand times over the years. Theoretically, at least, it’s true for many gardens. If your landscape is home to a lot of spring-flowering plants of the flashy variety—roses, peonies, iris … Read more
Gardeners may swill champagne along with the rest of the world at 12:01 on January 1, but most of us don’t truly feel the New Year’s spirit until the temperature starts to rise and the first snowdrops, crocuses and winter aconite pop out of the still-frozen ground. Even if a bit of snow lingers in … Read more
