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Terrariums are (still) cool.  Last year I wrote a post (Terrariums are cool (again)) on how I make - and became addicted to - terrariums.  And if you were inspired then to make one (or ten), they might be in need of a little rehabilitation by now.  ...

What have you done with all of the tender perennials you bought this summer?  Are they in the compost heap?  Have you left them where they were planted in hopes of a mild winter come-back?  Did you take cuttings?  Have you filled your ...

Things are really looking up around here.  I have to say that I still have goosebumps and this weirdly giddy feeling that must be called "hope".  Rhode Islanders, regardless of a devastatingly stinky economy (did you know that we now have the ...

I've gotten out of the habit of writing lists.  Even though I carry a notepad with me at almost all times I apparently find every excuse not to write in it.  (Usually it's for lack of a pencil.)  But this time of year, just like spring, I'm so ...

The gardens were a little soggy yesterday.  I could hear the ground actually percolating in places where it wasn't ankle deep in mud.  There's nothing like a weekend of non-stop rain (the rain gauge overflowed at 5"...) to make little fungi-brellas ...

Down by the compost enclosure and Dick's vegetable garden, there is a bed dedicated to Julie-favorite eats and I got caught there on my walk this morning.  I must confess that I probably stopped for a full 10 minutes to graze on her ground cherries ...

We know a gardener whose most sublime view of her garden is from the bathtub on the second floor of her house.  From there she can look down on her borders laid out like blankets of color.  The last time we took a bird's eye look at the Display ...

It's time to think about next year's garden.  (When isn't it time to think about next year's garden?!)  Last week Gail cleaned out the cutting bench, filled it fresh with new perlite and we've both started hoarding plants for next year's garden.  ...

I think there's a whole lot of "necessary" and not a lot of "evil" (see the previous post) when it comes to seed annuals.  It's true that they cost the moon as pushed plants in 4" pots at garden centers but if you plant them as nature intended - as ...

... aren't coming to an end just yet!  Just because school buses are stopping traffic and old fashioned fashionistas are shooting poison daggers at anyone who dares to wear white, it doesn't mean summer is over.  Not by a long shot.  Or at least a ...