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As we're blown toward a new year, I feel bound by tradition - or is it just habit? - to take a look back at the past year and make endless lists of plants to know and grow (and not grow). Below is a continuation of a list I started the other day of ...

Despite increasingly frosty temperatures some plants in the garden seem unable to resist the urge to keep growing and are lending a whole new meaning to the idea of "evergreen". Usually by now have extolled the virtues of evergreen foliage in the ...

It's almost 70 degrees outside, the air is feather-soft, the sky is blue-blue and the sun has that golden, get-under-your-eyelids slant. It's the kind of day that absolutely insists that we get outside. We should be looking for fall color and ...

There has been a lot of speculation ever since Irene blew through that this wouldn't be a good fall foliage year. Even in the days after the storm the horizon - particularly anything facing south and east - has looked markedly brownish. And then we ...

I used to work in a windowless office so I completely understand when every other visitor tells me I have the best job in the world. I know. I totally do. But contrary to popular opinion amongst non-gardeners at least, the weather isn't always 70 ...

The North Garden wall restoration project had already begun but it was almost as if we couldn't wait to get at the wall itself. Three members of Team Florabunda came in on a wet and wildly windy morning, were reluctant to break for tea, and stayed ...

It isn't easy to let go of an amazing season in the gardens but at some point in the fall we will have to. Just not quite yet! There's more activity and color in the gardens than ever - I don't think I've ever seen more monarch butterflies than I ...

If it wasn't for the thick morning fog we might not know that the seasons are in an indecisive transition. And if we didn't crash through strands of fog-lit spiderwebs with every step we wouldn't know we were sailing into fall. It's transition time ...

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day (hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens) is the best excuse I can think of to show off some of my favorite weirdos. I know my cup of tea isn't to everyone's taste. For one thing, I tend to gravitate towards anything with ...

September is one of my - and Gail's - favorite months in the garden. But so far, this is no ordinary September. Irene aside, it's raining again. I can't remember the last time we weren't desperate for a good drenching by now. (Looking back at my ...