Even for me, the self-declared winter loving hermit, it has been a long winter. This past week has been discouragingly cold. Thanks to those crazy people who somehow decided taking away an hour of sunshine (I am a morning person) and tacking it on to the end of the day (when can I go [...]

I have completed the main part of my plant orders for the coming planting season and my head hurts. I am certain that if I were more methodical about this, it would be a day at the beach. For the most part, I have certain plants, like delphiniums, achemilla, and certain heucheras that I cannot [...]

We finally have some snow and , this morning, very low temperatures. News agencies reported that 49 of the 50 states in the US have snow on the ground. Likely this comes as no new news to residents of the East Coast, take comfort in knowing you are not alone; reports have snow on the slopes [...]

In some ways this is one of my favorite points in the garden year. We are at the end of our spring bulb display and at the beginning of the tremendous, over-the-top summer garden season. This is the time that I imagine the garden collectively drawing in a deep breath that will be let out [...]

As with most of the Northeast we are two to three weeks ahead of the season because of the unseasonable warm weather since the beginning of April. Usually, at this date in April, I am handing out atta-boys to the first narcissi to bloom. Instead, we have thousands blooming already, we are mowing the lawn, [...]