The weather here has been soggy and cold lately. We have potted up all the annuals and perennials, started some seeds, and are basically waiting for clement (is that the opposite of inclement?) weather to get out into the gardens and start the season. So, while I wait, I have been playing with options on [...]

  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 [...]

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 [...]