I love gardening. I originally got into it because of my dislike of mowing, fertilizing, and in general taking care of the lawn. The more gardens you have, the less lawn there is. And while I do enjoy gardening, I also like to minimize my work. That’s one reason why (in general) I don’t deal with …
It’s officially spring, yet once again there’s snow falling outside. Luckily it looks like it’s just flurries and nothing will stick, but still…it’s spring, so enough snow! My crocuses have been beaten back several times by heavy wet snow since they started poking their heads out of the ground, but they’re still at it. I’m …
I’m getting real sick of seeing Christmas photos in my Flickr account (which, in turn, show on the photos page and in the footer here. Since this is a great time of year for gardeners — seeing old plants coming back to life, working on new garden plans — I figured I’d take this opportunity …
Part of the reason I got into gardening was simply to have less lawn to mow: the more gardens I had, the less grass there was to deal with. (And I enjoy taking care of flowers and shrubs much more than grass.) I came across this site — lesslawn.com — that has many ideas and …
Save the Flowers – Would-be scent engineers aim to resurrect lost floral fragrance No one knows what’s responsible for this waning of fragrance by roses and other ornamental-flower varieties, including carnations and chrysanthemums, but scientists who investigate floral scent suspect that the flower breeding that’s led to an estimated 18,000 rose cultivars in an ever-widening …
While using my company’s TV product, MyBestBets.tv, I was recommended a show on DIY Network, “Weekend Gardening,” so I TiVo’d it and checked it out. Not only was it a pretty good show, but the episode was about starting a garden from seeds — something I was planning to do this year. So why am …
Yee-ha! Some recent garden photos from around the house…