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We've been getting the exclamation question "What are you going to do when Julie retires?!" since long long before Julie set an actual date. And as the date she set last year approaches, I still don't have a good answer. For those of you who ...

We can't - or at least don't - always live in the moment. The past is good to revisit sometimes for what it can teach us (you know what they say about hindsight and all) and it's exciting to cast ahead to the future. Right now I'm slightly single ...

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 ...

Gail doesn't want me to admit this but we've both hit The Wall. It's a June wall and I think we hit it every year as we finish planting and every year we think there's something really the matter with us. We've been so wiped out for the past ...

- 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 ...

I think we outdid ourselves with tulips this year - we planted 300 (Angelique and Cool Crystal) in and around the Rose Garden and 600 (Cistula, Blushing Beauty, Black Hero and Creme Upstar) in the North - not to mention a cutting bed full of them. ...

You all know by now that I love taking plant portraits. I especially like the up-the-skirt close-ups, the Georgia O'Keefe abstracts and the soft focus glamour shots. The wide angle shots are harder to compose (except in the Water Garden where ...

It's all about the little things again. Yesterday Gail spotted an adorable flock of Cedar Waxwings feasting on inchworms and pooping on me (nailed twice, lucky me!) and today Gioia spied the Oriole sweetly serenading as we weeded the Display ...

I could tell this morning, when the birds were louder than the chuckle and siss of my coffee maker, that spring has sprung officially and certainly, no doubt about it. It even seemed almost a little easier to bounce out of bed this morning. Now ...

Does this look familiar? Now is when I officially might start repeating myself - exactly one year ago tomorrow I wrote Blithewold's first ever blog post - I kid you not. It's Blithewold's anniblogiversary!! And it's truly déjà vu all over again ...