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No rain in sight. The thunderstorms that have been in the forecast periodically haven't materialized for us in Bristol since a month ago in June. It's dry dry dry and even the pond has emptied already just as if it's sprung a leak. The watering ...

I have been trying for a couple of weeks to find words to express my sadness - my blues, as a matter of fact - that Mary Philbrick, one of the people who makes this place so special, won't be walking up the greenhouse steps today saying "Yoo hoo" ...

- make light work, so the saying goes. I totally agree! I just read a blog post here by veggie garden guru Barbara Damrosch in which she shares a how-to put your houseguests to work in the garden. What a great idea! I can imagine plying my ...

Yesterday morning and today couldn't have been more different. Purple drizzle clouds and bitter mist yesterday have moved over for a rime covered sparkle today. Admittedly it was less pleasant walking out in yesterday's damp rag than today's ...

  Blog Action Day and Garden Blogger's Bloom Day are two for one subjects for my post today. Read on for Action and click on for bigger images and names of what's in bloom (I don't think the subjects are unrelated!) Nearly 16,000 voices ...

  At the end of August I swivelled around the garden trying madly to take pictures of all the dozens of hummingbirds. Two weeks later it's the monarchs distracting me from my work. They're like a pure fall color concentrate or tiny drunk ...

It's important sometimes to go someplace else when unpleasant things are happening. Yesterday I was in the dentist's chair and while my dentist leaned on my lower lip and reached fists and sharp things into my mouth parts, I did my darnedest to go ...

We ran from full-tilt planting, past Go, to marathon watering. There have been these strings of spectacularly sunny and breezy days, so crisp it seems like it's possible to see all the way to the Azores. Not a normal June altogether! (But then ...

It's already been a weird week of elfish triumph, freakish nature and things that nightmares are made of. First the triumphs: our garden elves and selves yesterday planted the cutting garden and spread leaf mulch (every one of us was eyeing it ...

I wonder if everyone had as glorious a Memorial Day weekend as we had here in sunny RI? Every nursery and garden center I passed by seemed packed with color - both human and floral. Local nurseries have a lot to contend with - sales are ...