Category: Home & Garden

The day the burlap comes off the boxwood is either a great day or a disaster.  I've experienced both.  This week, I had some really good days! I started removing the burlap in the back over this past weekend and with the exception of two or three sad looking boxwoods, everything else has fared well… Continue reading Oh Happy Days… →

I love the rain, especially how it smells when it settles the dust, but curling up with a good book and hearing the rain against the window is pretty perfect, too. And at this time of the year, rain is a gift for the garden.  Soon after, everything looks green and clean. This week, however,… Continue reading What to do on a rainy day… →

Every April, around the middle of the month, I take a deep breath and remove the burlap protection from the boxwood hedges.   After the disastrous unveiling last year and realizing almost immediately that most of the hedge didn't survive, I was nervous to see what lay beneath the burlap.  To my delight, all looks… Continue reading A Good Start… →

By "bed," I mean flower beds, raised beds, and/or containers.   I'm sure many of you have been making garden plans and are anxious to get going like me.  Although I don't have significant projects planned for this summer, I decided to change how I plant the containers in the back garden.  I'm thinking of… Continue reading Compatible Bedfellows… →

Does the 2025 trend, "Modern Old Money Gardens" sound like an oxymoron to you?  To me, Old Money implies long established gardens, whereas, Modern sounds like new/recent gardens...but who am I to question this contradiction? Every January we are inundated with long lists of trends for everything from personal style to home decor etc.  I'm… Continue reading “Modern” Old Money Gardens… →

  Before my house gets decked out for the holidays, I have work to do. I don't know if you ever get overwhelmed by the state of your home. Many of us look at our gardens and struggle with where to start or what to do next. That dilemma usually doesn't intimidate me, but put… Continue reading Before the holiday season… →

As the winds blow and temperatures drop, it's a relief to know that all (or most) garden cleanup chores are done for the season. I never seem to get as much done as I'd like, but sometimes you must say, "This has to be enough." Safeguarding the boxwood hedges occupied most of my concerns this… Continue reading Fingers crossed… →

This is not a novel idea for many of you, but it's a fairly new concept for me.  It happened almost by accident last year when I bought a lot of perennials, and because I wasn't ready to plant them in the landscape, I added them to my containers.  In the fall, I transplanted them… Continue reading Perennials in containers… →