Country Gardener

The Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf taught me to appreciate that plants are beautiful in their dying away in the fall. These "buttons...

The leaves are now off most of the trees, but there are still a few spots of color, and good ones too. My favorite shrub for fall color, tho...

It's been a lovely year for producing fall color, but not so great for keeping it long. The trees pictured above, Red Sunset maples, now...

No time for words this morning, so pictures will do. It was one of those frosty mornings when getting out the camera is mandatory, no matter...

We have plain old staghorn sumac growing around our old silo – all that's left of the old barn site – and it's the perfect landscapi...

I love this time of year. I don't think my garden is ever more beautiful than in October. And the same goes for all of nature up here in...

We've planted a lot of trees on our 10-acre property, but the most impressive one for fall color is Nyssa sylvatica , also known as sour...

I notice that Tiger Eyes sumac, officially Rhus typhina 'Bailtiger' Tiger Eyes®, has been given a Gold Medal Plant Award for 2007 by...

I don't grow a lot of annuals, but I do have a few long-blooming favorites that I think are perfect country garden flowers, among them ...

The best thing about hydrangeas in the fall is their long-blooming flowers. I have several Pee Gee hydrangeas in bloom right now, and the cu...