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Temperatures dipped into the 30s last night but if only it would frost we'd feel justified in having taken the gardens apart this week. The Rose Garden might have the hardest to let go of, it was still so pretty. One of the volunteers called it ...

This weekend is the gardens' final huzzah and I can hardly believe it. The season went by so quickly and it's quite possible that the gardens have never been prettier than they are right this minute. It will break our hearts to have to start taking ...

This whole glorious summer-like week I have been in raptures over the light. How it slides in sideways through the morning and afternoon... (Are you stuck inside then? Shame.) How it would be blinding if not for the brim of my hat and the contrast ...

I don't think I have been nearly noisy enough about the cutting garden this year. It is so knock-your-socks-off bloomerific. I'm also not sure I've mentioned just how fun it is to pick flowers from it every week and to see the fabulously artful ...

It feels like the pendulum has paused exactly mid-swing, balanced between seasons, temperature extremes, and in the high blue sky between dewy mornings and golden afternoons. Right here, right now, everything, except maybe my raging allergies, feels ...

The airspace over and through the gardens should be all aflutter right now. The garden is alive to be sure -- it buzzes and hums; it zings and whooshes and pips (we still have hummingbirds), but its flying flowers -- the butterflies -- are strangely ...

I am always reluctant to say goodbye to summer but this morning, as I type with cold hands for the first time in months, I have to acknowledge a shift. The capricious weather has been bouncing from gray stormy back to sultry only to blow on a breeze ...

As much as I love getting away for a summer vacation, coming back to work is not so bad when it looks like this. While I was gone the gardens grew even more beautiful. So beautiful in fact that I've had the pleasure of a post-vacation week spent in ...

I wish I knew that trick because once again summer seems to be flying by -- despite long days in May and June spent planting; despite what felt like an interminable heatwave in July. But suddenly it's almost the middle of August and the tupelo trees ...

This week has to have been the prettiest week of the summer so far. The sky is clear as a bell, a slightly lower humidity level has made it easier for internal thermostats to function as nature intended, and we even just had a tiny but delicious bit ...