Some thoughts for for a new gardener: Keep a journal. It doesn’t have to be fancy. I received a wonderful garden journal as a gift, […]
Dreaming
Annual tradition. Our little corner of the world. Natural beauty. Mountains meet lakes. Can’t wait. #lakeplacid
Weekend breakfast
We’ve been fortunate to have a community garden plot up near the Frelinghuysen Arborteum through the Morris County Parks System. Â Even though there’s now a […]
New discoveries
Better half is working late (NYC agency life), so what better way to pass the time than take in the garden — and a glass of […]
Design
Okay, just in case you think this is all about putting a bunch of stuff in the ground and seeing what happens, it’s not. […]
Garden. Love.
Plants made an impression on me from the start. Â I recall bright purple pansies with yellow faces where we lived when I was just three […]
San Francisco
I’m traveling on business to San Francisco this week, quite fortuitously avoiding the East Coast blizzard of 2015. It’s been several years since I’d last […]
Seasons
Who says the warm months are when the garden is the most interesting? I was perusing our photo archives of the garden, this photo of one of […]
Respecting what has come before…
Part of the fun of the garden when you have an older home is trying to imagine what the former owners created. The grounds of our post-war […]
Fall planters
There is a certain joy in putting together a fall planter. Â Here is my first this year. Â I like the size for a mixed planting, […]