There’s a belief going around that talking to one’s plants will cause them to flourish. Well, there might be some validity here. A person...

I have owned a camera since I was twelve years old, and in the dark bathroom even learned to develop and print my film. Later I wanted to...

The word landscaping always conveyed to me something far too elaborate that one would find on an eighteenth-century French or Italian pro...

To me, March is an untrustworthy month. The winds and the ides of March are both notorious, but the month holds much that is unexpected. ...

My title may sound like the name of a ski resort, but I mean only to suggest what might go on in a garden during winter. What? Nothing? W...

My first house plant was a pineapple. I must have read some place that it was possible to root the top of the plant, below the leaves, fr...

OK, so my cut flower garden doesn't quite resemble that of Lisa Ziegler. Maybe it's because I didn't have Grandpa conditioning my soil w...

by Jim Davis The poet Wordsworth was probably right. The way we look at nature changes as we grow up. Our early innocence is full of wo...

I was only a child during the Second World War, but for various reasons the conflict seemed a presence in my life, even without the horro...

By Jim Davis In my years as a Master Gardener I’ve taken on a few jobs, all of which were not only satisfying but also a real pleasure. T...

by Jim Davis My mother was a great gardener, and I inherited her love of nature and plants.  Routine things such as establishing a career...