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When I look at our storeroom in the cellar (cork-lined and full of canned goods that my mother who would have been 100 this…

Two rock stars of the gardening world have recently release significant works worthy of any gardeners bookshelf. Ken Druse’s ‘The Scentual Garden’ and Amy…

Dare yourself to try tulips in colors you normally would not plant. A red tulip may be more complex in color than you might…

Just as an artist creates a composition, what we choose to grow and how we combine it with others in the garden is As…

I don’t know how the weather is where you live, but here in New England, it’s suddenly summer. Mid-summer, in fact, and while spring has…

I could just call this post “June in Rain” as we here in the northeast are experiencing what may be the wettest and coolest…

A couple of weekends ago I was thrilled to have been invited to Snug Harbor Farm on the coast of Maine for a book…

MAPLE SYRUP IS ABOUT AS OLD FASHIONED AS ONE CAN GET IN NEW ENGLAND BUT LIKE MANY ARTISIONAL PRODUCTS, INNOVATION IS CHANGING EVERYTHING. HERE…

Primula elatior, the English Oxlip simple yet so rarely seen in American gardens. If you want your garden to look like the hundred acre…

New spring. growth on pomegranate trees in the greenhouse emerges very early, even have a freeze. It’s often our first sign on spring. Trees…