If you’re going to be in Montreal in the next couple of weeks, you gotta go see Flora. If you’re not going to be there in that time, wait t...

You know how so many plants at this time of year are in shades of russet, gold, orange, carmine, and so on? These are all splendid colours, ...

Whether I like it or not, we’re being dragged kicking and screaming into the autumn. No matter that technically, there are about three weeks...

One of the writing projects I’ve been doing for almost ten years is a tiny monthly community newspaper called The Canning Gazette. It was st...

This is a non-gardening blog entry, so if you’re not into the sea, come back next time… Went to a press conference yesterday at Bedford Inst...

Well, there’s no such thing as moderation in our weather anymore. We’ve gone from muggy and humid and foggy to just plain hot hot hot! Hot e...

I was talking yesterday with Tim Amos, a landscape designer, instructor and plantsman par excellence, about the mindset some people have abo...

About ten days ago, just before I left for a few days in St. John’s, the rock of my birth, I was driving out to Springvale Nurseries when I ...

Oh, me nerves, as my fellow Newfoundlanders would say. We are into day I-don’t-know-what of high humidity, mega-fog, abrupt tropical showers...

June 11, 2005. It’s been a year, already, since my father slipped the surly bonds of earth for the last time, not to take off in a Boeing 73...

It’s June! And I forget what year it is in the Chinese calendar, but at our house it’s the year of the hummingbird. We’ve never had so many...

Why do you suppose that every time I plan a day of working in the yard, the fog rolls in thicker than oatmeal porridge? Obviously, the weath...

You know the old saying about how visitors or fresh fish are only good for three days? Well, I sort of feel that way about traveling. By th...

Remember how I said I wouldn’t be talking about politics in my blog entries? Well, this is a bit of an exception, although it mentions cats ...

...New Plants, of course! What were you thinking? Yet another reason to support our locally owned and operated nurseries…without them, how w...

For those of you who didn’t get a chance to attend the second annual Saltscapes East Coast Expo….well, you really missed out on a great even...

I feel genuinely sorry for those who live in a place where they can’t hear peepers at night—whether because they live in a highrise in a dow...