Country Gardener

My new post about fall color, this time all about terrific trees and shrubs for autumn display. This blog has moved, please visit countr...

I have a new post up with lots of pictures of ornamental grasses in the fall. Please go to my new blog to read it. In working on the blog c...

Blog notice: I want to let you know that my blog is moving to a new location. It will be two-step move, first from blogspot to WordPress, w...

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...