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As I walked through the garden I heard a thud.
It was a particular type of thud, one that has become familiar to me over the last decade of gardening. The first apples fall from their trees with a particular sound that tells me it’s time to begin the harvest.
A sound that will be very common to gardeners across my region over the coming weeks: I live in apple co...
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden’s famous Meadow when I visited in July, past its spring flowering.
In this third and last post from my recent trip to California, I cover the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, the mind-blowing challenges of fire-safe landsc...
Fritillaria imperialis at Keukenhof Gardens – swoon~
Most of us greet the arrival of blooming bulbs in spring as a welcome sign that we’ve gotten to the far side of winter. While I love the first crocus as much as the next gardener, for me the magic of these early blooms begins six months earlier, in these dog days of August when I spend...
There is still time and happiness.
As we all know, good flower gardens take time. Hours. Days. Weeks. Seasons. Years. Lives.
Add it up: Winter evenings bent over seed catalogs and garden magazines. Spring working the soil and planting. Summer weeding and wate...
Lucy Allen comes to GardenRant this week from Substack, and from a sweltering and very dry United Kingdom. –MW
I know. We are all far too hot. But I am going to talk about it, all the same.
During this latest heatwave – flipping through magazines; trying to sit indoors instead of going into the garden – I found I couldn’t ignore a little voice that’s b...