Christmas Tree Legends

By now, many of you will have put up your Christmas tree, decorated it and stuffed presents under its skirts to tantalize and tease all in the household. As most of you know, there is a long tradition of using evergreens in winter celebrations. Dr. C. Hole in the book, Protective Symbols in the Home, [...]

Fergus Does it Again

Now, I know some of you (at one or two) like to hear what my oldest and best friend Fergus and I are doing. Right now, I’m not talking to him. Here’s why.

3 Step to Better Shade Gardening

And to follow up on the previous post – here’s a video about 3 Steps to Better Shade Gardening

3 Steps to Great Full Sun Perennials

Interested in finding the three main things you need to do in order to grow great perennial flowers in full sun? There are some decent pictures in the video (if you like perennial flower pictures) And when it comes to full sun perennial plants, there are some things you want to think about. For example, [...]

2 Things about Poinsettia

I think this is “that” column. The one where I tell you how to either kill or save your poinsettia because it just seems too nice to toss away. It seems that a column like this is obligatory; much like writing about not planting too early in the spring or your tomatoes will get frosted. [...]

30% of Birds in Danger of Extinction

Recent research at Sanford University indicates that global warming is going to have a devastating effect on land-birds. *If* nothing changes between 2100 and now, we can expect to lose upwards of 30% of all land-based birds. It seems the plants they depend on have to move north or upward in height (up the nearest [...]

Garden Bloggers

One of the things I’ve started doing again after a bit of a break, is reading a lot more garden blogs. (Hey, it’s winter and I can’t garden) I had read about Blogger’s new policy of requiring you to have a Blogger site if you wanted to interact with other Blogger blogs but hadn’t run [...]

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