Fruit

Edible Blue Honeysuckle: A Fruit for Cold Climates

by Clayton Wiebe on January 26, 2010

The two most mysterious aspects of clematis are, How is the word pronounced? and, What is its plural form? Once these questions are answered, growing the plants is plain sailing.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Three gardening books for children

by Kathy Purdy on November 18, 2008

Working the soil brings me back to my own nature, as I now understand that tending a garden is the same as taking care of myself.
Laurie Lisle

Our best apple recipes

by Kathy Purdy on September 25, 2008

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
Henry Mitchell

What to do with Concord grapes

by Kathy Purdy on September 10, 2008

The garden is not only an ornamental place, but a habitat and a civilization.
Stanley Kunitz

Rundy publishes his first book

by Kathy Purdy on January 28, 2007

Snowdrops provide the intermezzo between winter and spring.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Is it? Could it be . . . Poison Ivy?

by Kathy Purdy on September 6, 2006

No real garden should ever show bare earth, much less a sea of bark mulch, which always represents both an opportunity lost and a failure of horticultural seriousness.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in Our Life in Gardens

To Complain, Or Not

by Rundy on June 16, 2006

In a lot of ways, I'm just hitting my stride, just a little more tired while striding.
Helen Yoest

Mow The Field, Mind The Blueberries

by Rundy on June 13, 2006

But here experience speaks: never be too far away from man or machine until the sweep of the last [Bobcat] blade, for those who have watched these men at work will know about the amazing interpretations of a plan that can occur.
Marylyn Abbott

Everything In

by Rundy on June 10, 2004

Roses are at their best trailing down in graceful trusses. In fact, they are like supermodels--the goods just look better displayed on tall, thin, limbs.
Marylyn Abbott

My Arbor Day

by Rundy on April 16, 2004

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
Edna St. Vincent Millay via http://twitter.com/PAllenSmith/statuses/11421830225

A Hard Day

by Rundy on April 27, 2003

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

More about fruit

by Kathy Purdy on April 2, 2003

Low maintenance is for homeowners, not gardeners!
Susan Harris of Garden Rant

Pear & Cherry notes

by Judy Miller on March 26, 2003

That's why it's good to have family or old friends. They keep you from becoming a prisoner of your own obsessions. The world is wide, there are other pleasures in it besides gardening, and sometimes we gardeners just need to have that pointed out to us.
Michele Owens, Garden Rant 31-Aug-2007

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