Most gardeners in this area have only been able to do their spring yard and garden clean-ups in fits and starts as the weather allows. We’re finally warming up a bit this week but now strong storms are in the forecast. One of the things gardeners will want to do is to size up ...
This post does not involve gardening, but concerns something that I thought avid naturalists and wildlife gardeners would want to know about. Clay and I were birding on Friday, January 17, 2025, in Cumberland County, New Jersey, east and south of the Cohansey River. We found a flock of ...
started making them myself. However, the highlight of mum’s week was the gardening programme on Friday night. That was the only time I saw her sit down and avidly watch something. Geoff Hamilton was presenter of the programme called Gardeners’ World, and every week he fashioned something ...
Lots of gardeners are getting out their seed packets and counting the days until spring, but chances are there are still plenty of cold days for planning and dreaming. Do you have new ideas for your garden this year? Perhaps you want to create a haven for wildlife, a small space for edi...
On Monday this week I received a message from the Shunyi Forest and Parks Bureau asking when I had some time to meet. They said they had something to show me. We arranged to meet on Thursday morning and I was a little intrigued. They collected me from my apartment and drove me to a...
Well. This week, as this fine plant is coming into bloom, the gardeners and I looked at it and they told me that it was an interloper. It saw an opening and took it. It just planted itself in my nice, comfy flowerbed, with everything a plant needs except a feather comforter and ...
There were plans to renovate a cemetery near me and one of my favorite trees was to be taken down. It was a hackberry that had dropped a large branch. It took me a while to ID the tree. Now I see hackberries fairly often as I walk out of the way places here in Salem MA. And...
One of the gardeners here has an incredible talent for propegating plants and takes great pains to display stock plants in a perfectly ordered way. At one end of the pond is an immaculately arranged collection of cacti. More cacti stand in a rank along a wall opposite a collection of var...
Already sessions are being planned to provide training on how to conduct surveys of wildlife, tailored resources about the wildlife to be expected in Beijing city centre, and lists of native plant and tree species to guide diplomatic gardeners. The Beijing Municipal government offered to host a ...
As a thank you, the birds have left us some beautiful flowers this year from other gardens, such as this love-in-a-mist. Birds are very good gardeners. Life is always very busy in the garden. After the bamboo was cut down, several thistles sprung up in its place. John and I kept ...