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I know there are people in the world who think that houseplants/indoor gardens are messy pains in the nether regions, but I kind of love that about them. They provide just what I need to occupy, exercise, and dirty my otherwise too-clean, ...

The plants in the greenhouse are more ambitious than I am. If I possibly could, I would spend the short, dark days of December curled up on the couch. But our plants are making use of what little sunlight is on offer, along with the eternal-spring ...

That's my answer for anyone who might wonder why I haven't posted in a few days. 4000 bulbs, give or take. Planted. Mostly. Still planting... Over the last couple of weeks, Gail and Tricia and I have tried hard to get all 3686 bulbs that we ordered ...

We've spent the last couple of weeks moving back into the greenhouse; a touch of frost fell this past Saturday morning; and we're mentally preparing to take the gardens apart this week to make way for tulips. But the season isn't over. There are a ...

There are often artists in the garden. Some bring easels and paints, others bring notebooks and pens, or just their imagination. Ellen Hoverkamp brought her flatbed scanner and laptop. If you did as I suggested back in May and bought Ken Druse's ...

Even after so many years gardening (how many? I'm much too young to say 20+) it still feels counter intuitive to transplant in the fall. Maybe it's because I love the fall garden and don't want to disrupt it. It's also so full and lush that it isn't ...

Whole days go by now between hummingbird sightings and I just stood in the Display Garden with my camera poised for a good 15 minutes waiting to catch a glimpse of a monarch. They're few and far between now. But just this morning I read a news blurb ...

As much as I love the freshness of a June garden, September is my favorite month. Some visitors seem surprised that we "still" have so much color but I can't imagine it any other way. The gentle light and the beautiful cool blue days demand that we ...

Our Tuesday volunteer group has been known for years -- for ever? -- as the "Deadheads" because they work in the Display Garden and traditionally, the biggest summer chore in these gardens has been to deadhead flowers to keep them from quitting and ...

The schoolbus yellow rudbeckias foretold the inevitable starting weeks ago. School has started in Rhode Island, it's about to start in Mass., and suddenly the property has gone quiet. No more laughing camp kids in bamboo grove and vegetable garden, ...