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Back when I first started here at Blithewold I remember Gail saying that fall was her favorite season. As a perennial lover of spring I thought that was a little strange and it made me wonder what I had been missing. A lot evidently. And it didn't ...

I haven't spent a lot of time in the vegetable garden this summer -- Dan has been right on top of the planting, the weeds, and the harvests -- but this week I found myself in there a couple of times. Gail, Betsy, the volunteers, and I had the ...

Our to-do list in September is blissfully short. The gardens are as lush as can be and just need to be coaxed along until frost or until we're ready to start moving plants around (musical perennials) and preparing for winter. It has been so dry ...

Change is in the air. Gail is always the first to point out how the light has shifted -- it is well into its golden slide to the south now. So pretty. And although this week we have been hit with the most summer-like weather of the summer so far -- ...

If this had been a "normal" summer (is there any such thing?) by now we would probably be feeling beat by the heat. The gardens might have started to look sun scorched, faded, and dusty -- IF we hadn't planned ahead to prevent that from happening. ...

I'm so glad it's Garden Bloggers Bloom Day today because I can't think of a better way to celebrate my return to the gardens after a week's vacation. And looking back in my archives here I'm amazed to see that I haven't participated in an August ...

The gardens are going through a bittersweet transition from June's hurrah to a mid-summer huzzah, and although we sometimes experience a "July gap," the shift seems pretty seamless this year. Delicate oxeye daisies gave way almost overnight to beefy ...

No garden is ever "done" -- perish the thought! -- but during planting week/month/season we all race to beat the heat. In the last couple of weeks here at Blithewold we closed in on that finish line, just in the nick of time if yesterday's ...

Usually we can identify what season we're in by the weather but this May into June has been weirdly crisp and fall-like. (I'm not complaining --- it's lovely. The only downside is that the soil has been dry as powder and even after being thoroughly ...

It's not even June yet but it's already planting week (month) at Blithewold. We hit the ground digging this week, clocking about 100 plants per hour. It's not a competition but like every May/June we race against time and and the weather to get ...