This has been the best gardening year I can remember. Until a dry spell arrived in September, we enjoyed consistent rainfall and moderate temperatures. There is nothing like moist soil and a cool morning to draw a gardener into the garden, and that's where I went, leaving my blog behind me. Here are some of [...]
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Photographing Grasses: Saxon Holt guest post and giveaway
September 15, 2015 – Posted in: How-toLong time readers of this blog may remember when Saxon Holt wrote about hardy succulents way back in 2009. In that post, he talked about the challenges of choosing photos for a gardening book that will have a national audience. Today he shares some tips about photographing ornamental grasses. It's part of a blog tour [...]
Pink and Orange: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day August 2014
August 15, 2014 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingGreetings, cold climate gardeners! It's feeling autumnal around here, and starting to look it, too. The mid-August garden is a garden in transition. The early summer plants are looking shabby and the fall garden is just getting going. The beds that used to look so lush now have gaps in them because the Johnny-jump-ups have [...]
Not Dead Yet: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day 2012
October 16, 2012 – Posted in: What's up/bloomingJust as we did in October 2010, we skipped the early frosts of September and went straight to a hard freeze: 22F on October 13th. With a cold snap like that, you might think everything would be flattened. But you would be wrong. Gotta Love That Rose! First a tip of the hat to Rosa [...]
Fallscaping: Book Review
January 28, 2008 – Posted in: Book reviews, DesignInspiring Ideas and Photos Take the Autumn Garden to the Next Level I'd read several books by Piet Oudolf and by Wolfgang Oehme, but I never really "got" the fall garden until I read Fallscaping, by Nancy Ondra and Stephanie Cohen. Somehow those two American women made gardening in the fall accessible to me in [...]
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