The (Not Quite) Best-Laid Planting Plan
Have you ever made such a stunningly stupid, colossally clueless and yet breathtakingly basic planting-plan error that the only thing …
Category Archives: Gardening
Mystery Lawn Weed Identification?
Never let it be said that nature allows us to get bored or complacent when it comes to gardening! In …
Big Brother, Little Brother
“I’m going to be as big as you, someday!” says little Picea pungens ‘Ruby Teardrops’ to ‘big bro’ across the …
On the Naming of Garden Beds
Sooner or later, most gardeners who have more than a couple of planting areas will reach a point where referring …
The Allium from Mars
My son is growing alliums in his garden for the first time, and apparently two of the ‘Globemaster’ bulbs were …
Gardening Between a Rock and a Hard Place
I am now convinced that the adage “You never know what you’ve got until it’s gone” must have been originally …
‘Blank Slates’: Too Much of a Good Thing??
Pick up most gardening books and you are likely to see the proverbial ‘blank slate’ touted somewhere in its pages …
Waste Not, Want Not?
Gardeners are nothing if not resourceful, and unless one has money to burn (hint: Not me!) we always have that …
