Country Gardener

A decade ago - before the makeover Ten years ago today we moved here to a very unkempt 10 acres with no gardens to speak of. A silo marked...

How "country" are you when there's a Starbucks a mile away? Yes, it's true we're getting brand-new Starbucks just a fi...

Our magnificent 'Donald Wyman' crab apple trees There is good news and there is bad news. The good news is that the spring flower...

There's a lot of news about vegetable gardening enjoying a big jump in popularity. Garden bloggers are writing about it, and my brother ...

There is so much in bloom here right now that I thought I would concentrate on my husband John's rock garden, which is looking very pret...

Now, isn't this plant just the cat's meow? I discovered it in my shade garden last spring, and said, Wow! This spring our Japanese W...

There seems to be a whole lot of yellow in the spring garden now. Here's Aurinia saxatilis , or basket-of-gold (used to be called Alyssu...

Star magnolia still in bloom - shrugged off the frost Serviceberry shrubs Weeping Higan cherry tree Chanticleer pear tree

Naturalized daffodils A star magnolia blossom before the frost Cushion spurge (Euphorbia polychoma) Myrtle euphorbia or donkeytail spurge...

Here's what we got today: one and a quarter inches of rain. Put that together with the half inch we had early in the week, and it totals...