I'm In The Garden Today

The best fertilizer is the gardener's shadow. ~Author Unknown A while back reader Christine asked me to write about compost. She wa...

O, wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley In the absence of blooms, the winter garden can still be full o...

To me, the garden is a doorway to other worlds; one of them, of course, is the world of birds. The garden is their dinner table, bursting wi...

"There remaineth one necessary thing... which in my Opinion makes as much for Ornament, as either flowers, or forme, or ...

It takes a while to grasp that not all failures are self-imposed, the result of ignorance, carelessness or inexperience. It takes a while to...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. -- Cicero, 106-43 BC Do your eyes glaze over when gardener-geeks use...

It’s important to take care of your little patch of earth no matter where you are. -Jamie Durie “The Victory Garden” I have great news!...

Plant carrots in January and you'll never have to eat carrots. ~Author Unknown Living in the Pacific Northwest you can get used to th...

"In these golden October days no work is more fascinating than this getting ready for spring. The sun is no longer a burning enemy, but...

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it. ~Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden, 1871 A little while ...