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Startling Beauty

Autumn’s crocus is worth planting if for nothing more than to startle your neighbors. When they ask how come your crocuses are blooming this time of year, just smile and say it’s an early spring.

A bed of autumn crocus does more than just startle, of course; it also paints the fall landscape in soft, bold swatches of lavender, pink, or white blo...


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The ending of Joyce Kilmer’s ode to trees, “only God can make a tree,” may be true enough (as was Woody Allen’s addendum “probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on”). But for good growth once a tree is made, it is for us mortals to step in and plant correctly.

Fall is usually the best time of year to plant most trees. The ground is soft and moi...


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The ending of Joyce Kilmer’s ode to trees, “only God can make a tree,” may be true enough (as was Woody Allen’s addendum “probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on”). But for good growth once a tree is made, it is for us mortals to step in and plant correctly.

Fall is usually the best time of year to plant most trees. The ground is soft and moi...


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Don’t Pick When Ripe!

Bite into a tree-ripened pear. Yecchh! It’s brown and mushy on the inside.

Pear is one of the few fruits that tastes best picked underripe, then ripened indoors — and there is as much art to picking and ripening a pear as to growing it. Perhaps more, because pears are relatively easy to grow as compared with other tree fruits.

Althou...


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A Nice, Springy Lawn

One year my lawn felt particularly soft and springy. It felt pleasant at first, then that feeling gave way to panic once I looked down and saw tunnels pushing up just beneath the surface. A mole invasion!

Before contemplating turning a herd of these velvety, furred creatures into a mole fur garment, I consider why they were there and just wh...


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