Category: a new chapter

A day outside is a good day. It’s still early, but it’s all waking up. And doesn’t that seem fresh again, new again? As does […]

March is well underway; the clocks have been set forward an hour, and there’s a bit more light each evening. And the garden marches forward. […]

At this time of year, I hope you’ll forgive me for some image repetition. Which gardener isn’t obsessed with every sign of change and any […]

Today, a couple of snaps of winter-blooming items. Although there’s nothing too unusual about snowdrops and witch hazel right now, it’s very welcome to see. […]

If gardening is considered a living art form — or at the very least, a living design form — the affect of time cannot be […]

Summer holidays are now a distant memory, and for most of us, shorter days combined with increasingly busy schedules means less time outdoors. New tasks […]

Blooming now across the woodland edges is white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima.) It’s pretty nice right about now, when everything is fading. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden […]

Here it comes.

There is no mistaking August in our neck of the northeast. The humidity is omnipresent and oppressive, and in recent years, there has been very […]

Oh, Persicaria! Virginia Jumpseed, Virginia Knotweed. A “smartweed.” Previously classified as a Polygonatum. So many names! In my quest to identify and understand what was […]