Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life

I’ve seen multiple versions of Buddhism's Second Great Noble Truth: desire is the root of all suffering (does this mean that life = desi...

And so he’s mine: Kerria japonica Golden Guinea five-petal cultivar, not the double-flowered, less hardy Pleniflora cultivar! Victory! ...

I’ve referred to the ravages of the 2009 – 2010 winter several times in this blog, and in particular two exceptional snowfa lls that, ...

So many flowering plants are lascivious little creatures, seducing us with their flamboyance their stamens yearning to be touched by the...

All artists (and indeed, according to one New York Times art critic , all cultures) are said to experience their “blue period;” surely Pica...

For the small garden gardener, groundcover—for example, creeping phlox, alyssum, creeping Jenny ( Lysimachia numm ularia ), ajuga ( Ajug...

…which is impossible in a city. And so you must adapt. Yesterday, I learned a valuable lesson that reminded me of an oft-cited quotation by ...