About Mike McGrath

Mike McGrath

Pennsylvania’s Mike McGrath has been a valuable mainstay of the magazine for decades, contributing his unique perspectives and humor about gardening and life. Mike’s work has appeared in over 100 GreenPrints issues!

Articles by Mike McGrath

Hosta la Vista!

Hosta la Vista!

Read by Michael Flamel   Listen Now: To quote Wikipedia (which, yes, I send a donation to every year because one) I use it a lot in my work and two) I grew  
My Horizontal Rhododendron

My Horizontal Rhododendron

Two Springs ago (not counting the most recent one, which was lovely in early January but ran away on the [theoretical] “first day of Spring” and has not been seen  
I Love Loofas!

I Love Loofas!

Warning: This story, like 90 percent of gardening, is a cliffhanger. Most of you will be familiar with that term, but in the interest of stalling for time, I will  
My Peppered Past

My Peppered Past

The grand (or not so grand; your choice) illusion of GreenPrints is that we grizzled veterans are asked to write a seasonally appropriate story every quarter, months before that season  
Of Bulbs Major, Minor & Light

Of Bulbs Major, Minor & Light

I always tell people that if they want to really show off their garden to plan to do so in the month of June (that’s still Spring, isn’t it?). Certainly  
“The Waiting is the Hardest Part”

“The Waiting is the Hardest Part”

As I have previously recounted in these pulse-pounding pages, the amazingly talented Hall of Fame ballplayer Rogers Hornsby (third-best batting average in all of baseball history!) was once asked by  
Grilled Peaches

Grilled Peaches

“How did it come to this?” is admittedly a question I have asked out loud more than once. But this was the first time it was at 3:00 a.m. on  
The Last Tomato Story

The Last Tomato Story

It was many years ago (Several? Decades? Where are my car keys?! Have Evil, Key-Stealing Squirrels become tired of planting black walnuts in every one of my garden beds and  
Baseball is Gardening is Baseball

Baseball is Gardening is Baseball

It occurred to me several years ago that two of my three passions were so intertwined that they followed the same season. Pinball, of course, has no season and was