Garden Architecture Blog

As my gardening companion and I prepare to leave a garden (really a low-maintenance native plant-dominated landscape) that we've created...

 Waking up to a lovely snowy scene is not what I usually expect to see in late February, but that's what I saw out the windows this morn...

Finally, the last bit of accumulated ice has melted and it was a "normal" temperature day, with highs ~ 58°F. I'm itching to p...

Even if the weather doesn't seem like spring, and is unusual for late February, plants and animals mark and take notice of lengthening d...

Wedelia or creeping oxeye daisy ( Sphagneticola trilobata ): a beautiful invader.  Less lawn... When we moved into our house here in North F...

I wrote a piece ~ seven years ago about what North American gardeners (and botanists) thought about climate change for The Public Garden (at...

This morning, icicles hung from the curled-up rhododendron leaves in front of the house and ice weighted down the hemlock branches. The dogw...