Matt Mattus, Author at Growing With Plants

MY ‘BACK FORTY’ – MY SECRET GARDEN AREAS I’VE NEVER SHARED BEFORE

July 17, 2015

A HOSE BRINGS WATER TO THE CHICKEN COOP, 250 FEET AWAY FROM RUNNING WATER AT OUR HOUSE. HERE ARE SOME PARTS OF THE GARDEN…

July 12, 2015

IPOMOPSIS RUBRA, A NATIVE SOUTHWESTERN WILD FLOWER, BLOOMS IN THE FRONT MIXED BORDER Just when I was beginning to feel a little bored with…

July 9, 2015

The perfect potting bench with hand crafted pottery at the Terrain in Westport, CT A couple of weeks ago we stopped in at the…

July 9, 2015

Specialist or enthusiast books seem to be falling out of fashion with most publishers – a sad but perhaps more efficient reality given that…

July 8, 2015

Joe used this new Vertical Tined tiller “right out of the box”, insisting that we had to give it the Russian Roulette treatment. Let’s…

July 1, 2015

It’s just about lily season around here, and with this amazing lack of lily beetle, the lilies are looking fine, with no damaged foliage…

June 29, 2015

Our 20 year old Stewartia pseudocamellia which oddly skipped blooming entirely last year, (but which has bloomed every year since I planted it), is,…

June 25, 2015

Illustrator Jen Corace visited us yesterday, and some of our ducklings wanted to wear trucker hats – but why, you ask? We can always…

June 24, 2015

INDIAN RUNNER DUCKLINGS

June 20, 2015

A stunning tower of old-work roses trained in a spiral around a tuteur adds drama and stature to the gardens at Wave Hill. Last…