Growing With Plants

Tomato tomahto? With squash and pumpkin, it’s much worse than that timeless debate. Without even daring to step into the omnipresent ‘Pumpkin Spice’ arena…

As Food and Wine magazine wrote this month – ‘The Cabbage Craze is Officially ‘Real’. I would add “The cabbage craze is real again.”….

‘Hypertufa Containers – Creating and Planting an Alpine Trough Garden is a new book by Lori Chips that addresses a very specific gardening method…

Niki Jabbour’s newest book Veggie Garden Remix will inspire you to try new varieties and versions of both familiar veggies and even some new…

 Parsley varieties, such as these seed-raised varieties (from Johnny’s) outperform any un-named generic variety bought at a nursery or garden center. It’s time to…

Am I an adventure junkie? Not exactly, but I do like travel, different cultures, world travel as well as plants and most of nature…

Meconopsis racemosa, one of the blue poppies so famous in the Himalaya. Yeah. Leeches… …but, blue poppies! I’m trying really hard to limit my…

I’ve been home a day and a half now from nearly a month in China. Clearly I am recovering from jet lag after more…

Because this garden we live in is 3 generations old, almost every plant has a story associated with it. Gardens are really living time…