Oct 30, 2013 | A Gardening Life
As I walked The Dog in Osterville’s Armstrong-Kelley Park today I couldn’t help but notice how dry everything is. The paths were dusty under the pine needles and oak leaves. In fact, the oaks have shed their foliage much earlier than normal and they have...
Oct 28, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Another Polular Misconception, Life's Gardens, Plant Something!
Promoting your new book or product? Do you want your local media to talk about your event, business or cause? Here are 4 tips from a writer/radio host who gets pitched to all the time: 1. Never send a press release as an attachment. These get dumped without even...
Oct 27, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Garden Celebrations, plants I hate, products I love
Last winter I decided that my back deck needed some trough gardens. Normally when gardeners think about troughs it’s the stone variety like those described books such as Creating and Planting Garden Troughs. I wasn’t craving stone or hypertufa, however…I was thinking...
Oct 21, 2013 | A Gardening Life, my gardens, plants I love, products I love
Over the past week I’ve brought a few plants in every day. I have an assortment of tropicals, succulents, and houseplants that go out for summer camp every year and come back indoors once temperatures begin to fall. Usually my goal is to get them inside when the...
Oct 17, 2013 | A Gardening Life, Inspiration, Life's Gardens
An iPhone camera celebration of fall.
Oct 16, 2013 | A Gardening Life, plants I love
I title this post intentionally because one of the most common questions I hear is about this fall-flowering perennial. “How do I keep my Montauk daisies from falling over?” or “When do I cut my Montauk daisies back so that they don’t fall over?” Montauk daisies, aka...
