Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life

One obituary stood out in today’s New York Times . The first paragraph reads: “Michael Seifert had settled into a quiet retirement in Vanco...

How we experience the inexorable march of time remains variable, hinged on the distinctiveness and particularities of the situation. If an...

An electrical line runs diagonally across my property, powering the house next door. It aerially bisects my stone patio, and thus offer...

“In chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower.” --Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) We ...

What’s wrong with this picture? Anyone? Yes, I see it too. The white chrysanthemum draws too much attention to itself; it is the gardeni...

For 40 years, Robin Lane Fox has graced the pages of The Financial Times with his weekly, witty garden column. And “graced” is an apt expre...

That word, a phenomenon so horrendous we gardeners dare not speak its name. Yes, the F-word. No, not that one. The other one. ...