heirloom gardener

Earlier this week, I saw an amazing dragonfly resting among the roses and clematis. I see a lot of dragonflies in the garden, but I've n...

Here are some highlights from my garden for Carol's Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day June 2008 : Star of the Republic is a wonderful rose ...

To think before I became a gardener, I always was bewildered as to what time was good to go to the local botanical garden to see the roses. ...

As a follow-up to my prior posts on deer , groundhog and rabbit control, the New York Times has a humorous article today on garden vigilante...

I could never imagine spraying inorganic chemical pesticides on vegetables or herbs that I am growing in my own raised vegetable beds . This...

I saw a tiny (about an inch and a half across) little butterfly that I had never seen in my garden before. As you can see in the picture, s...

As a follow-up to my prior post about the Garden Conservancy , I was excited to read about their upcoming Open Days. Valerie Sudol of the St...

Heirloom plants, especially non-culinary herbs and plants of the American prairie, run throughout my garden. This weekend I found some wonde...

Here is another good gardening project to do with children . Using the Old Farmer's Almanac Calendar as a guide , the kids and I planted...