Garden Wishes for Santa
December 18th, 2012
What would gardeners want from Santa? How about a groundhog-eating rabbit, no-prune plants with an off button or maybe even some halfways decent weather for a change?
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To Heirloom or Not?
December 4th, 2012
One of the many wranglings in the garden world is the issue of hybrids vs. heirlooms. Should I preserve the old-fashioned, time-tested, save-the-seed favorites of yesteryear or plant the higher-yielding, disease-resistant, new-fangled hybrid varieties that the big seed houses introduce each year? I say, “Yes.” Both views have their merits, and there’s no […]
Middletown Tree Uproar
November 27th, 2012
Did you hear about the latest spat from Middletown? A dozen trees got chainsawed along South Union Street last week, and the president of the local weekly newspaper got arrested for chaining herself to a tree in an effort to save it. Tempers flared on both sides (not too surprising given today’s general […]
Christmas Treeing on a Budget
November 20th, 2012
If you’re a gardener like me, you probably lean toward a real evergreen for Christmas – whether you cut one yourself at a local tree farm or buy one already cut. Those “permanent” trees (i.e. “artificial,” “fake” or “Chinese imports”) just aren’t the same, kind of like dye-infused blue orchids, spray-painted poinsettias and synthetic lawn. […]
A Threat to Garden Tours?
November 13th, 2012
An accident during a Connecticut home garden tour led to a threatened lawsuit that not only ended a 20-year-old charity event but may make people think twice before agreeing to open their garden gates to a garden tour.
So What’s a Plant Know?
November 6th, 2012
I’m fascinated by the findings in a new book from Israeli bioscientist Daniel Chamovitz that shows how plants “know” a whole lot more than we think they do. In “What a Plant Knows” (Scientific American, $23, www.whataplantknows.com), Chamovitz makes the case that plants lead “rich, sensual lives” and that they’re more like people than […]
Yard Cleanup After Sandy
October 30th, 2012
Didn’t we just go through all of this? First Irene, then Lee, now Sandy… not to mention the unnamed weather woes before and between. Here’s hoping you aren’t facing disastrous difficulties this time around and are looking only at some garden-variety yard cleanup as Sandy blows away. Indications are that this “superstorm” could’ve […]
Ready for Sandy?
October 27th, 2012
We’ve got a day or so to get ready for what could be some heavy rain and wind from the approaching Hurricane Sandy. Get leaves out of the gutters and away from storm drains. Here’s a 5-point to-do list for the landscape: Get the leaves out of the gutters. Leaves started dropping fast this […]
Love ‘Em and Leave ‘Em
October 23rd, 2012
Why do we pay to have our leaves hauled away and then turn around and buy mulch, soil amendments and fertilizer? It makes more sense to me to keep our leaves on site…
Make Your Own Free Plants
October 16th, 2012
No need to let your tender plants croak when frost hits. Many of them are easy to start from cuttings, which lets you overwinter “babies” inside that become “mothers” for a ton of new freebies next spring. Here’s how…