long-lived plants

Joseph Rock

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If I had the means and motivation to annex my neighbor’s property, I would create a garden room devoted to peonies of all sorts. In my mind’s eye, the scene unfolds, with hundreds of garden peonies, otherwise known as Paeonia lactiflora, in bloom. Tree peonies—Paeonia suffuticosa–would abound. Intersectional types, a marriage of tree and garden … Read more

Spring Longevity

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The countryside around my family’s summer cottage in Central New York State is studded with former farm sites.  Sometimes buildings or their dilapidated remains are evident on the overgrown lots that were once the hubs of working family farms.  More often, all that remains are the horticultural memories of those farms—garden plants once tended by … Read more