Country Gardener

Garden bloggers Helen and Sarah Battersby of torontogardens.com , who visited my garden last month and posted a delightful slide show of my...

I recently finished reading Break of Day by Colette (translated by Enid McLeod from the French "La Naissance du Jour"). It has in...

I sometimes want to post pictures without garden articles, so I've started a separate photo blog for that purpose. You can visit it here...

One of the chief joys of country gardening is the many birds that summer on our property. I had never really noticed grey catbirds until we ...

Would you do this to your favorite lilacs? We did - and we did the deed in mid-July, about a month past the ideal time to prune. The shrubs ...

There are lots of flowers blooming in our gardens around the house, but for this Garden Blogger's Blooms Day* I'm going to feature ...

The conditions very early in the mornings have been exactly perfect for meadow photography. Here's how our meadow looked to my camera ey...

My husband said yesterday: "I'm so glad it's August and the beginning of the end of summer." A minority opinion, I'm s...

We had torrential rains over the weekend: many separate waves of severe thunderstorms delivered 1.75 inches of rain on both Saturday and Su...

I have been meaning to put a slide show of my garden into this blog for a long time, but gardening always seems to get in the way. Now Helen...