Country Gardener

It was a lovely still morning with an overcast sky and no wind. John had asked me to take some pictures of his rock garden , and this was th...

Spring-flowering shrubs seem to come and go so quickly that I think of them as fleeting moments in the garden. Luckily, these "moments...

Planting wildflower meadows - natural landscaping with prairie wildflowers and grasses that are native to North America - is billed as a low...

I never liked rock gardens much. A fake mountain-side with alpine plants plopped into a suburban yard just doesn't do it for me. To my m...

Last week I realized that I needed more gardening help, as my regular gal is taking some time off this spring and summer. But I never know i...

I have a thing for crabapples, especially white flowering ones. My favorite is this beauty, a good disease-resistant cultivar sold as Sugar ...

As a garden writer, I often get bulbs sent to try out. Here's one I planted a couple of years ago: the parrot tulip Estella Rijnveld. To...

May is a crazy month: everywhere I look, there are jobs to do. Divide this perennial, remove that shrub, replace that dead tree, weed, mulch...

We've planted a lot of trees on our little farm, but the most gorgeous tree of all was already here. It's a huge weeping willow that...

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...