You know that segment on Oprah where she shows off and gives away her Favorite Things? Well, this is my version of that. “Colleen’s Favorite Things” has a nice ring to it, eh? I am a scented candle fanatic. My entire family knows that if they don’t feel like buying yet more gardening stuff for [...]
Read more →I was looking through some of my photos, and came across some that I took last spring of the front garden, which, as I’ve mentioned before, has been expanded and redesigned. So far, I’m pretty happy with the results: This is how it looked last spring (before we removed that ugly-ass awning—which was a huge [...]
Read more →It’s in vogue right now, depending on which garden blogs you read, to hear that we don’t need any more books telling us how to garden, that encyclopedic “how to grow X plants” books are a worthless waste of time. All we need to know, it seems, is to plant veggies in full sun, give [...]
Read more →You know you’re living the good life when: 1. You can enjoy the amazing fragrance of a bouquet of flowers for your desk every week from May through September. 2. You can eat delicate, flavorful mesclun salads for lunch several days a week. 3. You can enjoy mint tea anytime you want it. 4. You [...]
Read more →It’s one of those phrases that makes me cringe each and every time I read or hear it, kind of like “compassionate conservatism” or “drill, baby, drill.” It’s a meaningless phrase, more B.S. spewed by both the mainstream and gardening media to try to inject my beloved garden with a little bit of the fear [...]
Read more →“As I look about me, I have reason to believe I belong to a vanishing species. Gardens like mine, which go by the unpleasing name of ‘labor intensive,’ are on their way out and before they go, I would like to contribute my penny’s worth to their history.” “I can’t resist them (asters, in this [...]
Read more →I was gabbing with a few gardenbloggers on Twitter the other night about, of all things, wild violets. It began with Mr. Brown Thumb sharing a photo of a violet and saying that he kind of feels bad about ripping them out. I related that I included wild violets in a post about weed control [...]
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