Gardens and Gardening

May 5, 2020

How and When to Prune in Your Garden

Daunted by when to prune which flowering shrub — and how? This short refresher course could raise your confidence level. I know few more masterly pruners […]
May 5, 2020

Cooped Up Indoors? There’s a Reason You Don’t Feel Well

When you spend a lot of time indoors, as many of us are doing now, it’s easy to succumb to a sense of malaise. Scientists, architects […]
May 4, 2020

Indoor Plant Guide

Whether you want to grow a single trailing vine, a luscious leafy monstera, or some herbs, fruits or vegetables that you can use in your spring […]
May 1, 2020

Garden Flowers: Not Too Late for Annuals

My farmer-florist neighbor Jennifer Elliott’s 15-acre organic operation in the Hudson Valley is like a giant cutting garden from April to November. So it was to […]
May 1, 2020

It’s Not Too Late for a Flower Garden

My farmer-florist neighbor Jennifer Elliott’s 15-acre organic operation in the Hudson Valley is like a giant cutting garden from April to November. So it was to […]
April 30, 2020

People Have Gone Full 1800s

“I’ve gone full Victorian,” said Rhian Rees, 34, of flower pressing, a childhood hobby she’s rediscovered in quarantine. “It feels like we’re back in the old […]
April 28, 2020

Shopping Your Garden

Armed with a Japanese weeding knife and my favorite trowel, I’m currently shopping in my own garden, as I do each spring, carefully scouting for the […]
April 24, 2020

The Easier Way to Make a Garden Bed

I’ve tried various methods of making a garden bed. Years ago, I invested in building a raised-bed vegetable garden with rot-resistant 2-by-12 lumber. It has served […]
April 21, 2020

In a Chaotic Season, Where to Begin Your Spring Cleanup?

Despite my decades of gardening practice, I feel frantic every April — and never more so than in the chaotic spring of 2020, when the normally […]
March 11, 2020

The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings

BOLINAS, Calif. — Self-sufficiency is like perfection, said Lloyd Kahn, the guru of guerrilla architecture and dean of all things D.I.Y. “You never quite get there, […]