Country Gardener

The bad weather of early April disappeared, and so did I, into the garden with all its spring jobs. Winter damage that's apparent so far...

I was an English major (a long time ago now), and so in April I like to take time to re-read one of the most famous English poems of the 20...

Over the winter, as I walked the golf course across the road I saw lots and lots of gypsy moth egg masses - so many that I began to scrape t...

Got miserable soil? The big reason that the soil in most yards is so poor is our neatnik habit of carting away every last bit of fallen leav...

Complaining about Canada Post is almost as ubiquitous as grumbling about the weather up here in the Great White North. Ask anyone, especiall...

In my official life as a garden writer, I write a column aimed at beginner gardeners for Canadian Gardening magazine. The editor, Aldona Sa...

Do all gardeners have pangs of regret when a new garden feature means the loss of some favorite plants? I do. One of my husband John's i...

Over at their Gardening and Yardening blog, Nancy Szerlag, the gardener, and Jeff Ball, the yardener, make the point that the much maligned ...

We heard our first red-winged blackbird call yesterday, and my heart melted. I just love red-winged blackbirds: aside from flowers, of cours...

Yippee, the first day of daylight saving time* and the start of our gardening season. Yes, we started "gardening" today - by movin...