I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always ….

I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or ….

Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following….

Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants d….

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and ch….

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind..

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden..

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no on….

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refre….

Anyone starting to garden... would be wise to look around carefully and see what grows well in other people's yards..

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards..