I’m excited.  When I stared at the border in the middle of July, beads of sweat coursing down my forehead while I thought of all the renovation work to be done, I was not excited.  In fact, I was not even interested.  Thankfully, September is here, days are cooler and, plan [...]

We have arrived at the time of year when a thorough reassessment of one’s garden can now be acted upon.  Plants put into the soil during the cooler days of September still have a good run of fairly mild weather in which to stretch out root systems before Jack Frost starts [...]

“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree” wrote the poet Joyce Kilmer over ninety-five years ago.  And, to all intents and purposes he was right.  What could be more beautiful than a fully leaved tree giving shade to weary travelers, or branches to active children?   [...]