Frau Zinnie

At the end of March, the hellebores will begin to bloom in Northeast Connecticut. As a child, one of my favorite movies was "The Secret...

May rushes in with blooming tulips and daffodils. The peonies are starting to bud, the milkweed is poking up out of the ground, and the Kwan...

  As it begins to grow, rhubarb will benefit from a top-dressing of well-aged manure. The growing season is officially underway, with snapdr...

  Besides making sure I get the weeds in check and continue to divide some perennials to share with friends, here is what is also on the lis...

It's the time we have been waiting for — spring! Here is the growing list of items to work on this month: Pest control:  I'm...

I sat down to write this month's garden chores and I already got that sense of panic in my chest.  There's so much to do. There...

In typical New England fashion, we started out March with seasonably mild days, and as I write this, snow is falling and covering all th...

I sat down to write this month's garden chores and I already got that sense of panic in my chest. There's so much to do. There...

A beautiful oakleaf hydrangea in Rhode Island. MIDDLEFIELD, Conn. - Is it time to prune your hydrangeas? That depends on which of the ...

Endless Summer blooms in my 2013 garden. My plant lost many of its flower buds that were formed on old wood last fall but killed with t...