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Freddy the Tree Trimmer
Ok, I admit that I can become very impatient. I am preparing to travel this week to a camp, Ferncliff in Arkansas, where I will be training for trip to Haiti later this year. My team from Bower Hill...
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Walking with Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Thoreau I read Walden Pond...
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Go Native!
It was a beautiful evening for the Phipps Conservatory Master Gardner’s tour of the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania’s Beechwood Farms Nature Preserve. Roxanne Swann, Beechwood’s plant center...
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Pesto Time!
There are few better experiences that walking out to the garden, snipping basil, and making fresh pesto. The fragrance of the basil alone sends me over the edge. Not only is pesto delicious, it is...
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An Aurgument for Substainabiltiy
Having just finished Stephen Orr’s “Tomorrow’s Garden” and having several days of over ninety degree weather, I am starting to consider the need for a low water garden plan. Several drenching storms...
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New Cairn Page
While at my favorite spot at South Park, I decided to construct I couple of Cairns. Then the idea came, to begin constructing Cairns where ever I am at the moment. Cairns(a heap of stones piled up as a...
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Garden Inspiration
One does not have to travel far to find inspirational ideas for your garden. Simply taking a stroll where ever you find yourself, your neighborhood, public spaces, shopping areas, or garden tours will...
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Contain It
Container gardening continues to be extremely popular. For inspiration and ideas on containers, check out the following publications: P. Allen Smith’s ‘Container Gardens’, Debra Lee Baldwin’s...
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