Toughing it out in the indoor garden
In late fall, dire decisions have to be made that mean certain death for some plants, possible extended life for others and assured survival for...
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Gimme Shelter — or Protecting Plants
I’ll always have a childlike wonder for snow days. I have friends who have mastered the art of overwintering plants in our quixotic Pacific Northwest...
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Good to the last leaf
There are a couple of magnificent, one hundred-and fifty-year-old gingkoes across the Ohio River in Louisville. Visitors to Cave Hill Cemetery and the Peterson-Dumesnil House...
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Fall Foliage in Under 1,000 Square Feet
This week I’m here to show off visions of peak fall color in my tiny townhouse back garden. Hey, maybe it’ll inspire other gardeners in...
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Maintenance or Management? – GardenRant
I find trees very exciting. As a species humans are used to looking down on things that are smaller than us: shrubs, bulbs, herbaceous plants...
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Chatto Symposium on “Rewilding” is Free Online
The Beth Chatto Symposium “Rewilding the Mind” showcased many of the leading European voices in ecological landscaping, and it’s all available online, FREE! And I...
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Hilly or Flat? – GardenRant
If you have been puzzled by the garden such as the one at Trentham, in Staffordshire, (see above) where you wander around in a half-discerned...
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Sitting on a park bench digging you
For decades I have relaxed on garden and park benches around the world. Now I can sit on my own park bench. I received it...
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When rage takes over in the garden
A Guest Rant by Heather Tuckman Plantrum /ˈplan-trəm/: The act of impulsively destroying plants out of unrestrained frustration. As a gardener, I have a problem;...
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Bury me in Nature’s Sanctuary at Laurel Hill Cemetery – My Ideal Green Burial Site
If you recall my rant about the utterly sterile, sad graveyard I noticed in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, in this post I’m raving about the exact...