There’s nothing like a bit of cold weather to make me pick up the pace of chores in autumn’s garden.  Suddenly the big jobs – seemingly trivial during the lazy days of summer – take on newfound urgency with the threat of winter just around the corner.  The window with the rotting sill must be [...]

To walk with a group of expert gardeners on a multi-garden tour is a treat reserved only for the criminally obsessed or the criminally insane.  Where else can one’s knowledge be minutely dissected like a freshman biology specimen?  Where else can one learn not only what one doesn’t know, but what [...]

I am not a cruel gardener.  It is heartbreaking for me to thin lettuces or turn over volunteer zucchini growing out of the compost pile.  I have a variety of Shasta daisy that is waging world supremacy in my perennial border – yet every year I dig some out and hasten [...]