Category: How Does Your Garden Grow?

“Of all flowers, methinks a rose is best.” Thus sayeth William Shakespeare.  And he seems to be...

Well, the dearth of blooms in the garden right now is boring and there’s not too much to write...

Audrey Hepburn once wrote “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”  And at this dark and...

Wow! Mother Nature sure showed us who’s boss. Our big freeze last month decimated some of our...

Every gardener needs time and thyme. We all know what time is; that thing that most of us waste...

There was frost on my roof this morning, but my plants do not seem the worse for it.  This is a...

Plants have sign language, too. Like any foreign language, you have to learn it before you can...

I love November – that crisp air, late fall flowers, slanting sunlight.  It even gets dark early...

After a summer of mixed rain, drought, too much rain, and then a little too much wind chances are...

The Parsley or Carrot family is very large (about 466 genera and 3820 species) and diverse...

What are passalong plants, anyway?  In colonial America, it all started before commercial plant...

In case you’re wondering, ‘locavore’ is a made-up word for people who try to eat only locally...

And if it’s not alright, it’s not the end. That phrase was from a young hotel operator in India in...

“But nobody does anything about it.” This quote is widely attributed to Mark Twain, but it doesn’t...