Have you heard the old mouse’s tale: “if prickly hollies are brought into the house, the husband is in command, but if smooth-leafed hollies...

Wow! I love organic mulches. Here are the Top 10 Ways Mulch can Benefit Landscape Plants: 1. Moderates soil temperatures like an insulatin...

While working on my talk on ‘Herbs of Shakespeare’ presented last week, I got re-intrigued with the elaborate evergreen gardens they planted...

There is something to be said for celebrating Mother’s Day in the most beautiful month of the year, amidst all the spring flowers. Wikipedia...

Groundcover plants, often overlooked in the plant pantheon, are hard workers in the landscape and solve many design challenges. Groundcovers...

   A gaggle of white terrestrial orchids are blooming on both sides of the path in my shady garden. My friend Mary couldn't believe they...

Background Back in the day protests were de rigueur and there were Love-Ins, Sit-Ins and Laugh-Ins. The first-ever Earth Day 1970 was inten...