Garden

If you could save a species and help other pollinators by planting just one type of flower, would you do it? By planting milkweed this spring you could help save the…

Congratulations to Danielle Porter for winning this book! Happy gardening Danielle. I was so pleased with a bee and pollinator book, that I thought I would pass on a…

In this season of frigid weather and no gardening, I have a couple of things to help me get through the winter. Hot soup, the pursuit of hygge (the Danish…

I awoke this morning to lovely early sunshine on snowy ground. I hope this post finds you well and hopeful. Happy New Year! 2016 was a big year for this…

There are three great reasons to grow garlic. For one, the flavor of homegrown garlic is great, better than the supermarket variety. Two, the allicin compound in garlic repels…

Want some ideas for your own organic vegetable garden? My local botanical garden, Tower Hill Botanic Garden, in Boylston, MA, knows how to do a vegetable garden. It is not…

Fall is an important time for the bees. It is their last opportunity to build up nectar and pollen stores before Winter. Here are the most nutritious fall bee flowers (for…

It was a long time coming, these raised beds. I first “built” my vegetable garden, with the help of my Dad, about 14 years ago. We created four “L”…

My vacations are always better when I combine it with a trip to a botanical garden. So during a recent vacation in mid-coast Maine, I was lucky enough to…

As it turns out, hydrangeas vary in their ability to feed the bees. Unfortunately, the very common and showy Mophead hydrangeas, or Hydrangea macrophylla hortensis (some seen above) do not feed the bees…