heirloom gardener

I purchased Garden to Vase: Growing and using your own cut flowers by Linda Beutler earlier this year. It is the first book on cut flowers ...

Given that I haven't poste since last winter, I guess I only have time for this blog in the off-season. Last year, the trauma of the gar...

I love attracting birds to the garden. While I have many plants during the growing season to attract birds--such as purple coneflower, black...

The warm weather over the past eight weeks was too good to be true. It has snowed over twelve inches since yesterday, and more snow is expec...

In February, I am always overwhelmed with winter and overwrought by the desire to garden again. This is when forcing branches and bulbs com...

I hope that by teaching children to love nature that as adults they will save and maintain native and heirloom plants. With that in mind, I ...

Madame Isaac Pereire blooms in spring and autumn. It has very large blossoms and is quite fragrant. I purchased it last year and it arrived...

Unseasonably warm weather has my Elwes snowdrops blooming in the garden already--one month ahead of last year's blooms. The Elwes snowd...

I was looking at pictures of my mixed border. The white daisy-like flowers in the lower right hand corner are feverfew. I decided to compos...