Growing With Plants

This last weekend of May, not only marks the last frost-free date for us in New England, but it also is the start of…

I DECIDED BE BE INSPIRED, SO I HAVE USED A MIXTURE OF TROPICALS, SUCCULENTS AND ODD COLOR COMBOS THAT ARE FUN AND EYE CATCHING.  Even…

LOOK UP FROM BELOW, AND ADMIRE THE WAXY WHITE BELLS OF THE SOLOMON’S SEAL Silver (white) bells. That’s what I’m talking about, and there…

No Mulch Here! It’s true, I hate mulch ( garden snob!). I use tons of it, but not in the nicer perennial beds closer…

Primula denticulata ANDROSACE STUDIOSORUM GROWING IN A ROUND ALPINE TROUGH ON THE DECK I’ve been thinking seriously exploring part of northern India and NW…

Margaret is now home, and slowly adjusting to a new, normal. She is no longer the fast, vibrant dog that she was two weeks…

Between hospital visits with sweet Margaret, I attended the Brimfield Antiques Show, which happens three times a year just down the road from us…

Daphne hendersonaii ‘Ernst Hauser’, a tiny shrub that was buried under snow and crushed this past winter….still, it seems to have recovered. Situated at…