Houseplants in Print and in Pots
Houseplants: The Complete Guide to Choosing, Growing and Caring for Indoor Plants by Lisa Eldred Steinkopf (Cool Springs Press $30) has a cool green and white cover
Then and Now – I Celebrate My 10th Blogaversary
Today I celebrate another blogaversary. Ten years ago I inaugurated my commonweeder blog. As a reader and a gardener I enjoyed the little play on words as the commonWEEDER and opposed to Virginia Woolf's CommonREADER books of essays. I had the most basic of ideas about what a blog was, but a good friend who knows more about such things said I needed a blog. I acknowledged in my first post that I did not know what was…
Secret Gardeners, Naturalists, and Wild Seeds
The Secret Gardeners – Britain’s Creatives Reveal Their Private Sanctuaries by Victoria Summerley with photographs by Hugo Rittson Thomas (Francis Lincoln $45) is a glamorous armchair tour of beautiful gardens created such creative people as Sir Richard Branson, Julian Fellowes, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rupert Everett, Sting and 20 other familiar and not so familiar British stars. Most of us don’t think we are engaged in garden design when we go out to plant a perennial bed or plant…
Thanksgiving Dinner – Granddaughter Hosts
There has been a lot of emailing and telephoning among the women in my family as we plan the Thanksgiving dinner. This year, for the first time, it will be granddaughter Tracy and her husband who are hosting the feast. I got to thinking about where the makings of our holiday meal had come from over the years. When I was very young we lived on my Uncle Wally’s farm and much of our food was produced on…
First Snowfall of the Year
After a very mild autumn I woke up this morning to the first snowfall of the year. Or am I just jumping ahead into winter prematurely? I have a whole month before Winter officially arrives. We never know what the future will hold, weatherwise - or any other -wise.
World of Laura Ingalls Wilder
It is hard to imagine that any family with young daughters is not familiar with Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie books which include Little House in the Big Woods, Life on the Shores of Silver Lake and the Little Town on the Prairie. Now, Marta McDowell who has written Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life and Emily Dickinson’s Gardens has come along to tell us the story of the Ingalls family’s life in her new book The…
Fall – Time to Get a Soil Test
“This is the best time to test your soil,” Tracy Allen, supervisor of the University of Massachusetts Soil Test Laboratory, told me
An Early Bloom Day – before hard frost
Will my garden be blooming on November 15. the official Garden Bloggers Bloom Day? Maybe not. Therefore, I went around the garden today taking photos of the flowers blooming this very unusually warm November day. We have yet to have a hard frost although some plants were bitten and succumbed. This is what's left on this gloomy day with a temperature of 50 degrees at 4 in the afternoon Daylight savings left, Eastern Standard time arrived and so…
Flowers That Bloom in the Fall – Hooray!
If I asked a gardener to give me a list of flowers that bloom in the fall, she might sigh and run out of names after chrysanthemums and asters. But there are many plants that will bloom well into October. Not only perennials bloom in the fall, but even a few annuals like my nasturtiums and marigolds. We are all familiar with the potted chrysanthemums that are available in September and October at garden centers and supermarkets. These…
Fall Clean Up and Cold Compost
Leaves are falling, some flower stalks have turned brown and brittle; it’s time for the fall clean up. I have been cutting back iris and daylily foliage which was looking less and less attractive every day. Cutting back is one way to make the garden look neater and a bit more serene. It is also a way to see clearly which clumps will be ready for dividing in the spring. Where can these divisions make the most impact?…
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