Hi All! Just a quick note to say hello from the annual Perennial Plant Association conference, this year in Portland, Oregon. This is my first trip to the Pacific Northwest and it has been absolutely beautiful here. The weather has been stunning (upper 70’s to lower 80’s during the day and 60’s at night), the…
Hi everyone! I thought I’d share a few photos from the garden. It has been nearly two years since I moved and as some of you know, it took all of the first year just to get the beds whipped into shape, the weeds under control and gain some sense of control over what was…
Hi Everyone–This week I’m passing along a press release about the episode of Volunteer Gardener that will air in the Nashville viewing area on Nashville Public Television this coming Thursday evening, June 17, at 7:30 p.m. and will repeat at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday the 20th. We air statewide across Tennessee, but at different times in different…
Wow, time flies! I’ve been trying to be good about posting and then suddenly I look up from what I’m doing and it has been THREE WEEKS! Where does it go?!? I’m happy to say that it has been one of the most spectacular hydrangea seasons that I can recall in the 17 years I…
I’m sure that for each of us there are a host of characters who played important roles in our lives, especially when we were children. My cast of characters happens to be a rather long list and oddly, or perhaps not so oddly, almost all of them had something to do with shaping me as…
Hello from a rain soaked, waterlogged and devastated, but optimistic Nashville, Tennessee. For those of you who haven’t heard, west and middle Tennessee and several other parts of the southeast were soaked by torrential rains this past Saturday and Sunday with some areas receiving upwards of 20 inches of rain in 36 hours. Nashville proper…
Happy Spring, everybody! I’ve been away from the blog for quite a while now and I’ve received several very kind emails wondering if I was okay and if indeed I was going to get the blog up and running again. I’m fine, I promise, and I WILL be back to blogging all the time now, so stay…
It has been a banner week at the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville. As I reported a few days ago, we began early last Sunday morning setting up and preparing for this year’s show. The installation of this year’s garden went along quite smoothly and I think we all felt we were pretty well…
Hello, everyone! And happy 2010! A few of you have noticed that I took a brief hiatus from blogging and I appreciate the emails and messages from people wondering if I was okay or if something had happened. The only things that “happened” were the crazy holidays and a somewhat protracted bout with a rather nasty upper…
No, this is not the name of a new plant! Sorry. I have avoided posting about food up to this point because this is, after all, a garden blog. But… many of us who garden are also “foodies” to one degree or another. The other night, I posted on my Facebook account that I had…