Author: Matt Mattus

 As many of you know, I was raised in a canning family. My mom canned hundreds of jars of most every vegetable there was,…

Summer is nearly over here in New England, with cool nights and nippy mornings, most of the garden plants save for the late blooming…

TOBACCO (NICOTIANA TABACUM) CAN GROW INTO A 6 FOOT TALL ORNAMENTAL PLANT IN ONE SEASON  I don’t know where it came from, but I…

Colchicum autumnale var. alboplenum from White Flower Farm Colchicum species – a last minute buy if you are lucky. For what ever reason, many…

Tis the season for Rain Lilies, Zephyranthes candida, one of those bulbs I cannot live without for its carefree surprise blooms in late summer,…

MARGARET  –  (JULY 4, 2001 – AUGUST 30, 2011)  Last night, as the sun was setting in a meadow under a clear, evening sky,…

A collection of ‘gold from the woodland’, our gift from Hurricane Irene’s rains. Wild late summer mushrooms, often called the king of the forest….

Lydia patiently watches the rainy garden as the outer bands of Hurricane Irene’ begin to reach us. Her full force is expected to hit…

Gladiolus ‘Atomic‘, G. primulinus ‘Mirella’, a miniature all red species-type of Glad, in a vintage vase that was my mothers, on our front porch.  Many…