Spring Thoughts

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

Edible Hedges

Europeans have always been crazy about hedges.  In England they are practically a religion.  We Americans, with our love of wide open spaces and vast suburban lawns, have generally been less hedge-crazy.  It isn’t that we don’t like shrubs.  In the twentieth century we have used everything from salix to sand cherry to conceal the … Read more