Country Gardener

This spring's forsythia in bloom After the winter my forsythia looks usually looks like the picture below, that is, with only a bit o...

Our barn swallows are back as of this morning. The swallows interact with us a good deal, mostly telling us in no uncertain terms that they ...

Toby sniffs around last year's grasses This was the week of the big garden spring clean-up. My beds around the house are dominated by or...

I recently had a help wanted ad for a gardener at Craigslist, my local paper and Workopolis. The person who wrote this corporate boilerplate...

Available only in Canada through Chapters/Indigo bookstores It's had a cover makeover and a name change to Basic Gardening , but the con...

Our creek floods its banks again Winter's retreat is long and ugly: we have officially entered mud season. This is my least favorite t...

Crocus in bloom on this day a year ago I've never been one to keep a garden diary in book form, but the great thing about blogging and d...

Gypsy moth egg masses on a young maple in my neighborhood A few weeks ago I put an article about gypsy moth caterpillars up on my gardening...

Coyote foraging for crabapple berries Around supper time this evening, my husband looked out the window, and said, "Isn't that a co...

The creek today: the flooding usually lasts just a day Amazingly, yesterday we hardly saw a bird. Then today, we had flocks of birds on th...