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Punxatawney Phil didn't see his shadow the other day and we all know that means spring is right around the corner. (Wahoo!) Gail and I are definitely feeling winter suddenly pick up speed and are switching gears and counting the milestones. Now that ...

I think there's a part of every gardener who chooses to disbelieve, ignore or at the very least push on the arbitrary seeming zone boundaries laid by the USDA. But then every few years we get a day or two in the winter that makes us cringe for our ...

The closer it gets to the holidays - and as the weather slides to the darkest, coldest time of year, the more I think about food. I know I'm not alone. Birds are hungry too. We don't hang feeders here - there would be no way to keep up with them not ...

Throw leaves away? Perish the thought. I wish I could preserve fall's leaves for color therapy sessions in the middle of winter. Right now I'm particularly taken with the changing colors on some of the shrubs and vines. I've never squinted at such a ...

It's kind of astonishing that an "immense sense of abundance" was, for Gail and me, a take-away theme from the Garden Design luncheon given that Joe Eck, our speaker, so recently lost his partner in life and gardens, Wayne Winterrowd. Joe and Wayne ...

We know it's fall - that it's still only October - by the color of sky and the leaves on -and off- the trees. Temperatures tell a different story. The last few days have so been beautifully warm and sunny that planting the bulbs was a (day)dream-job ...

I have gotten out of the habit of getting here extra early every morning to walk the property in search of interesting things. Lately, I have really only had eyes and time for the gardens. I realized after finally walking around again yesterday ...

This morning a fellow dog walker said to me, "Ugh - this rain is horrible!" To which I replied, "yeah... but we need it." She looked at me a little sideways. And to myself I said, "Are you kidding me? This is GREAT!" My dog was as muddy as hers and ...

Even though it's deliciously chilly, and even though the light has slanted dramatically southward, I'm still unwilling to call it fall. We've got another whole week before the autumnal equinox and the official start of autumn, so I insist on calling ...

By now you probably know that Hurricane Earl gave us a miss. The wolf at the door turned out to be a tiny puppy who made a scritching sound just like crickets in the middle of the night. When we came in the next day to check for "damage" and to ...