Nancy Rowe’s cottage gardens combine herbs, vegetables, and flowers together in a gorgeous display of color, textures, and edibles.
Tag: gardening
Gardening Corner: Becky’s flower photos changed how I look at my garden
My cousin Becky came to photograph flowers by accident.
Into the wilding: Trading lawns for meadows
I’m seeing changes here in Brandon. Someone has an entirely edible garden surrounding their house where a lawn once was. It’s beautiful.
Gardens can make liars of us all…
I don’t know about you, but I’m getting 2 to 3 gardening catalogs every single week with beautiful covers, enchanting flowers, and words like ‘specials,’ ‘sales,’ ‘buy one get one free,’ ‘plants ship free’ and ‘supplies are limited’ splashed all over the front and back covers.
Fall is the perfect time to get planting
If the garden catalogs and online images of the perfect border garden seduce you, too, break out your tools and start digging.
What can Brandon do to help the Monarch butterfly?
It has come as a shock to many of us that their numbers have dwindled so drastically that the Monarch—the State Butterfly of Vermont—has just been listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
What can I do about deer eating my garden?
In Abby Adam’s delightfully funny and irreverent book on gardening, The Gardener’s Gripe Book, deer kick off the chapter entitled “Enemies List.”
Bee balm makes its mark on summer
Coming in a panoply of bright jewel colors, bee balm is the perfect midsummer flower. Seasoned and new gardeners appreciate the beauty and ease of growing these flowers.