Give your gardener inspiration for Christmas
This Christmas your family and friends might be wondering what to get the gardener who already has everything. Because, if you’re like me, you have already amassed a shed full of tools. You’re probably all set for bird feeders — any more and they’ll eat you out of house and home. You’ve got a birdbath too, [...]
Read More →On artful, art-full gardens
My garden art is showing again. I must have forgotten how many ornaments I have stashed around because I was pleasantly surprised to see birdhouses reappear between the branches and my concrete goose poke its beak back out from behind some melted annuals. I don’t mind that they, and a few other things, have suddenly [...]
Read More →Still time to plant those ticking time bombs of hope
Now that we’ve had a killing frost, not to mention a super storm and slushy nor’easter, the garden is finally shutting itself down, and my days of feeling guilty for not accomplishing as much as I’d wish I had are coming to an end. Whatever didn’t get divided and transplanted might just wait for spring [...]
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