In the Garden

Keeping the hive running is a year-round business for bees -- even during the winter, when no nectar-producing flowers are...

My mother was explaining to me the other day, she had watched a show on TV discussing high food prices...

Many people enjoy a velvety green lawn and dislike invading weeds. There are weedy bullies that resemble grass that muscle...

As I sit here writing this article on a Sunday afternoon yet another storm is raging outside with high winds...

I first became aware of the balsam flowers (Impatiens balsamina) many years ago after my mother had purchased several plants...

On a beautiful autumn day, I came home to visit my parents and walked into the kitchen to see my...

I've declared full scale war on the birds invading my new vegetable garden! For the first time in my life,...

During WW 1 and a few years later during WW 2, people in the U.S., Canada, and Australia were encouraged...

I have to be very honest. As a kid, I absolutely hated the taste and the nasty smell of the...

Often when we think of bulbs, we think of planting spring flowers like daffodils, tulips and crocus in the fall...

Air Plants are spiky, fuzzy, hairy looking things that look more like a strange animal than a plant. They originate...

Several years ​ago, I produced and hosted a garden show, called, The Serenity Garden on a local educational television station....

A couple of weeks ago I received a gardening catalog from a small company in Maine offering several varieties of...

Abutilon, known by the common name, Flowering Maple is part of the family of plants that include Hollyhocks, Rose of...