This column’s garden photo shows a swath of the Friendship Salvia (Salvia ‘Amistad’) as background for Fernleaf Yarrow (Achillea filipendulina ‘Coronation Gold’). These plants have good traits in common: both are summer-blooming perennials, upright in form, and propagate each season by sp...
Garden Educational Videos, eBooks, Slide Shows and Podcasts On Demand In the St. Louis area where I am, it’s a bit rainy and cold right at the moment and it’s possible that tasks you were looking forward to doing in the garden might be postponed for a few days. If you’re forced...
Between interesting shows,… Read More Books, Design, Garden Bunny Williams On Garden Style While some of you, like me, may still have your original 1998 edition of Bunny Williams On Garden Style, you will definitely… Read More Design, Garden, Gifts, Interior design, Travel Paris Finds | ...
My rule is simple: If a non-native plant serves my local ecosystem and shows no invasive tendencies, and does not displace native species, it can stay. I planted most of my non-native ornamentals decades ago, before I fully understood the threats faced by our native species. I have pulle...
“Evangeline” by Robbie Robertson, which Emmy Lou Harris sang in “The Last Waltz.” The band has been doing a special series of shows featuring the music of The Band, while incorporating some of Johnny’s original compositions. Johnny is hard at work on a CD, to be released in October...
Linking her life lessons to the stories she learned in childhood about the constellations, Tweit shows how qualities such as courage, compassion, and inspiration draw us together and bind us into the community of the land and of all living things. Pieces of Light: A Year on Colorado’s ...
"Man becomes aware of the Sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the Profane ... In his encounters with the Sacred, man experiences a reality that does not belong to our world yet is encountered in and through objects or events that are part of...
The page introducing the New York section of the book shows the names and locations of 25 gardens on the right and suggested daily itineraries, each with a stop for lunch, on the left. This book is a great resource for those of us who love to visit gardens as it covers each garden in...
The video below shows our Side Garden after a long, cold and snowy Winter. Below the […] 6 Steps to Prepare #Spring #Garden! #gardens #gardening It’s early Spring in the Mid-Atlantic area of the U.S. and our White Hyacinth are finally in bloom! Five reasons to grow hyacinth in...
The garden continues to evolve, moving from the manicured lawn and roses we inherited when we bought this house to a garden filled with native and drought-tolerant plants, three mature trees, and a deck lined with succulents instead of thirsty annuals. The slider featur below shows the back ...