For anyone new to native plant gardening or curious about it
Author: mywildgarden
Is your neighborhood a toxic chemical hotspot?
Just say no to Mosquito Joe!
Simple past, present progressive: What I did and am doing
Building planters out of two old crates and volunteering at the Deep Roots Habitat Gardens Tour.
Remembering Eleanor Perényi, who was more than a garden writer
Almost every list of classic gardening books includes Eleanor Perényi’s Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden.
Reviewing The Gardener’s Year, by Karel Čapek
The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek helps us laugh at our own obsessiveness
Paper gardening: a look at We Made a Garden, a garden writing classic
The most interesting aspect of Margery Fish’s We Made a Garden is Margery’s tussles with her husband Walter.
Assigning grades: native perennials for a front yard
Taking a moment to review and remember to inform my decisions as fall planting approaches.
What killed my lawn? How to make organic lawns look good
For new gardeners who wonder why their lawns died
Dreams come true: visiting the chateaux of the Loire
A what-I-did-on-my-summer-vacation post
A conversation withTalis Bergmanis
Have you ever passed a private garden whose interesting street edge told you it was hiding something special?