December 10, 2011

Garden journal photo: Seayard on Flickr
Winter is a great time for planning, dreaming, and collecting your ideas for recording in a garden journal. There’s no “garden variety’ garden journal. One person’s journal may be solely for record keeping while … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Books, Finding, Garden Design, Great Finds
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December 6, 2011

I’m so excited to share these hand picked eco-friendly and well designed goodies from my holiday wish list! I’ve selected mostly experiential gifts–creative things that your friends and family can do with their own hands. How about … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Books, Bulbs and Plants, Container Gardening, Containers and Pots, Edible Landscaping, Finding, Great Finds, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens, Hydroponics, No-Dig Gardening, Square-Foot Gardening, Terrariums, Urban Agriculture, Vertical Gardens
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March 17, 2011

Talented landscape design duo Susan Morrison and Rebecca Sweet’s new book Garden Up! is out and you’ve seriously gotta get your hands on one.
A fan of vertical gardening, I love how these gals have packaged their combined creativity with … Read More…
Category: Books, Finding, Vertical Gardens
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October 8, 2010

Photo by Ellen Shapiro, Dig-it-Blog
I’ve made some new friends in and out of the garden lately. Some I met at the Garden Writers Association Annual Symposium in Dallas last month, some through other bloggers and on Twitter, others just … Read More…
Category: Birds, Bees, and Butterflies, Books, Education & Tours, Experiencing, Great Finds, Public Gardens
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September 27, 2010

Photo by Nancy Moon
When everything above 14th Street in Manhattan was considered “the country,” fashionable folks from the city headed up to 61st Street by stagecoach or steamboat to the Mount Vernon Hotel where they spent the day sipping … Read More…
Category: Books, Edible Landscaping, Experiencing, Green & Sustainable, Herb Gardens
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