I'm with Irish poet William Butler Yeats who extolled life in the 'Bee loud glade' in his poem The Lake Isle of Innisfree. I WI...

Today felt like summer, in earnest; hot sunshine, little wind, and the garden smiled in relief, stretching towards the warmth. And the garde...

As I mentioned in my previous note, daylilies are a plant propagator's delight, which is why there are more than 60,000 named varieties ...

I met a lovely woman the other day while I was out poking around a couple of nurseries. She confessed that she didn't particularly care ...

Yesterday dawned a little foggy but also sunny, and since I was feeling pretty good, we decided to go to Liverpool, collect the rest of my s...