As the former owner of a small business myself (GreenPrints, maybe you’ve heard of it, ha!), today’s gardening humor story about running a nursery had me in stitches. The thing  …

Ha, the fun of moving to a new house without knowing what you’re getting into. And no, I’m not talking about knob and tube, or ancient septic systems, I’m talking  …

Many old European homes had keeps, food-storage rooms located off the kitchen. The meadow keep was for drying the family's culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers. Author and herbalist Elizabeth C.  …

Christmas is coming, and Santa Claus—St. Nicholas—is starting to stuff his big sack of presents. But did you ever stop and think, “Who was St. Nicholas, and why does he  …

Farmers live by the seasons, as do gardeners. And I like to polish my spectacles and dig deep into gardening science, testing my soil and measuring frost dates, sure, but  …

I've always had a special affection for Thanksgiving. It seems to me the gentlest, the kindest of our holidays. There're no glaring red rockets or blowouts on beer. There's not  …

There are many quotes in today’s piece from Diana Wells dating back as far as 1597 about the premise that what we are cultivating is a garden of miracles in  …

Sometimes the fun of our hobby isn’t in the plants, flowers, or food we grow, it’s the animals in the garden (or, in the case of today’s story, frogs in  …

There are some garden talks that couldn’t have occurred in any other place. Most of my fondest memories, with the exception of my children being born, have taken place in  …

Flowers aren’t meant to last forever. They appear for a season, then go on. For me, part of the joy of gardening is being there to witness those brief moments  …