Country Gardener

Everybody up here hates February, so on this 28th and last day, let me outline 10 reasons why I've learned love this much maligned month...

A few years back, I attended a gardening talk given by the lovely Lauren Springer, author of The Undaunted Garden: Planting for Weather-Resi...

In my previous post , I wrote about the aesthetic problems of road salt, and how the slush it creates makes winter in the city so unpleasant...

After last week's almost record snowfall, I was stuck by how lovely the snow was on our farm, and how easy it was to manage - and how ug...

Man, this guy has a way with words, and I agree wholeheardedly. He is the Renegade Gardener, AKA Don Engebretson, award-winning Minnesota wr...

This was my job late this afternoon - clearing our 250-meter laneway so that my husband could drive in coming home from work. Even after the...

We seem to have become a foster home for orchids that family and friends press on us after they've finished flowering. I guess that'...

Predictably, the mild winter I wrote about in early January didn't last and we are now enduring daytime arctic cold with wind chill fac...

Out of curiosity I bought the premier issue of a new magazine from Better Homes and Gardens called Nature's Garden . As I leafed throug...

Last May, I posted about making some adjustments my four-square garden, Country gardener: Seven-year-itch . I had discovered that my laissez...