Country Gardener

How do you move a big spiky Agave? Very carefully. This wonderful Agava americana 'Variegata' is the big mother plant from which we...

If you have shrubs in your yard, you need to know something about pruning. My favorite pruning book is Cass Turnbull's Guide to Pruning:...

Photo credit: by Arielle (via Flickr) Forsythia shrubs are enormously popular for their cheerful early spring flowers. If you have this sh...

Snow Crocus Our Bloom's Day offering is quite meager: our first specious crocus flowers came out a couple of days ago. These lonely litt...

Here's what it looked like as the creek at the front corner of our property over-ran its banks today. We always get flooding after heavy...

They're back! Today's wonderful sound : the trill of the red-winged blackbirds . The green fuse is igniting. But first, we have to g...

Here they are, huddled against the cold, our first flowers of the year, the stalwart little snowdrops. Yesterday, there was no sign of robin...

Went last night to an excellent presentation by Scott Ogden and Lauren Springer Ogden, the husband and wife authors of Plant-Driven Design...

Well, it isn't really gardening, but the job of the weekend was mowing down our wildflower meadow . We like to get this job done when th...

'North Wind' switch grass in early fall My hort buddies all know that my signature plants are ornamental grasses. Here's my abs...