A Wrinkled Rose

Everyone has a garden dead zone.  It can be a small area or a larger one where nothing seems to last very long.  You buy plants over and over again that are labeled as “hardy” or “tough”, and install them with high hopes, only to watch helplessly as they struggle and die.  Containers might work … Read more

Blush Noisette

Being in my garden is my greatest joy.  But life events this year have sliced into garden time, shredding it into small, irregular increments.  The situation will improve eventually, but as the growing season has progressed, I have learned that even absence from my garden has its compensations. The lesson came from my neighbor, a … Read more