On Saturday June 20th at 10:00am, I 'll be at the Brunswick Community Center Building at Railroad Park giving a free seminar on "The Recycled Garden" as part of the Town of Brunswick's Sustainable Saturdays series. Gardening doesn't have to be about the latest gadget, the latest plant or the latest set of matching patio [...]
The spring reclamation of patios and decks has begun across the Mid-Atlantic and New England. And, unlike our brother gardeners in sunnier climes, this will involve something more extensive than changing the cushions to reflect a seasonal change from warm to warmer. Our outside rooms – be they patio, deck, balcony or front porch stoop [...]
Convalaria shoots are just as fascinating to my Jack Russell as they are to me The crocus and winter aconite have finally appeared, only to find me standing over them, tapping my watch. Everything is a little late this year, but I will take that as an omen for a long spring and [...]
Whether Robert Frost originally coined the term or not I do not know, but 'mud time' must be the simplest and most accurate expression to describe the period from the last snow melt to the first tulip blush. It has arrived, and each day is a new adventure in negotiating paths, roads, chicken coops and [...]
Very excited to be notified that STG has been selected as a top ten finalist in the Gardening category for the second annual Better Homes and Gardens Blogger Awards! Finalists were chosen by Better Homes and Gardens from over 3,000 reader entries! Thank you for all the voting you did last week. Though STG didn't [...]
It's a privilege to be a contributor during GreenPrints' 25th year of publication, and I encourage you to subscribe to this very worthy magazine described by editor Pat Stone as "the most unusual, humorous, moving, entertaining, inspiring, simply special garden magazine in the country!" My article in this issue, "My Tulip Turnaround" is a story [...]
Thanks to a snowy day there is order where once was chaos. There is a certain kind of panic at this time of year when the winter starts to draw to a close and I calculate how many tasks I need to finish before the last piece of wood is thrown into a [...]
I have a clear memory of sitting at my kitchen table four years ago and reading a newspaper article about a small group that was forming to discuss a neighborhood grocery store three miles from my home in Brunswick, MD. My memory is probably so clear because something inside nagged at me to save the [...]
Brush clearing has been the order of the day for the last few weeks, spurred on by the annual exchange of power tools at Christmas, and a desire for a bit of exercise that doesn't involve a perky Zumba instructor with thighs like a nutcracker. It is an exhilarating job once the blood [...]
A new year, a new growing season. Yep, it's time to seriously start thinking about what you're going to do out there. However. For these days of January...and perhaps for a further few in February, I'd like to add another element to This Month's Garden - the DON'T list. These are those things that we [...]
