Gardens

Flowering cherries such as Yoshino (Prunus x yedoensis) and Japanese flowering cherry (Prunus serrulata) are small spring trees that cover bare branches in white or pink

There is a point every fall when the evenings turn cool enough that everyone heads indoors right after dinner. A fire pit changes that. Pull a

By the time the tomatoes start splitting and the zucchini finally slows down, most vegetable gardens look finished. They aren’t. Fall is when kale turns sweet,

Planting bulbs takes a small leap of faith. You bury dry, papery bulbs in cold soil in October, forget about them all winter, and then one

By late September, most summer containers are running on fumes. The petunias are leggy, the geraniums have gone woody, and the whole pot looks like it

Every yard seems to have one: the low corner that turns to mud, the patch by the downspout that never quite dries, the stretch of lawn

Few things make a garden feel alive like a butterfly settling on a flower you planted. A butterfly garden is part flower bed and part nursery:

Fall is the season when a garden finally shows what it was built for. The light drops low and golden, maples catch fire, grasses turn to

There is a weekend every September when the summer petunias finally look tired and the farm stands fill up with pumpkins. That is the signal to