Country Gardener

The boys of winter: my Toby, the white one, and our neighbor's dog, Buddy, are so joyful on snow-days, it's infectious. The closer w...

Robins that is. I was walking through my favorite thicket over at the golf course across the road with my dog, and I heard dozens of birds. ...

Are you getting a bit tired of being hammered over the head about the sins of mankind? There's great rant over at Rambles at starchamber...

As regular readers of this blog know, I'm kind of a weather geek. And have we had weather this week: an ice storm yesterday morning, fol...

Do you like cutsie plant names? On the Garden Writers list-serve I belong to there's been a lively exchange about Pink Winky, the new hy...

August garden beds: My take on the Oudolf style There a good article over at the New York Times about Piet Oudolf . The writer tours his Hu...

I enjoyed this month's Garden Design magazine (February 2008). The issue's main feature stories cover European gardens, including P...

Our hoophouse during our plant selling days When we first bought our country property - which we did mostly because we wanted more space for...

It got up to 16 degrees C (60 degrees F) today and was still 14 C (57 F) when we went to bed. Virtually all the snow that was here since the...

I took this picture of my neighbor's little courtyard garden after this morning's snowfall. © Yvonne Cunnington, Country Gardener