The Fall and Winter Vegetable Garden

The days are quickly becoming shorter and nights are slowly becoming cooler. The chickweed, Stellaria media, will soon be sprouting in any moist and fertile soil. These are the signals to begin planting the fall through winter growing vegetables. Now is the time to...

Cool Plants For Hot Days

  Is a 95, 96 or 98 degree day too hot for you?  Cool off in the shade of a crepe myrtle. Crepe myrtles love the heat and humidity and they offer an added bonus of the scent of high summer.  It is a scent that is hard to describe and hard to...

In Anando’s Garden

He enjoys being referred to as the Howard Finster of Mexico.  If so, he is the irreverent Finster and certainly not a Reverend.   Anado , is an artist whose his home and garden is his pallet.  Anado was grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and studied...

Garden Tours & Touring Gardens

In April I had the pleasure of opening my Park Lane garden to several groups of avid gardeners, photographers, art, nature, and travel lovers. (Often this is the same person in one.) Last Thursday, The Garden Conservancy Society of Fellows swooped in with two busloads...

Fashion Week and Months

It is Fashion Week in New York City, Paris and Milan.   The newspapers and magazines are full of photos and editorials about the new looks, colors and materials.   Even I, a person who has dressed in a company uniform 5 days a week for 36 years,...