This is the time to plant dahlia tubers here in New England. This week I plan to open up the boxes of dahlia tubers that I stored in my basement and begin planting them. Rochester seedsman James Vick (1818-1882) wrote…
Thursday we had a warm sunny day here in New England. That morning I drove over to the Harvard Business School in Cambridge to see the Baker Library exhibit called "The Art of American Advertising 1865-1910." The exhibit, which runs…
Over the years I have found the hosta a superb plant for the shade. Today I grow over one hundred varieties in my garden. Since in a couple of weeks I am talking about my book to the New England…
Charles Mason Hovey (1810-1887), a nurseryman, writer, and editor from Cambridge, Mass. published an early American garden journal called Magazine of Horticulture. In launching the monthly magazine in 1835 he used as his model John Claudius Loudon's English monthly Gardener's Magazine,…
You might wonder where your need for a lawn originated. In nineteenth century America, especially in the suburbs, the lawn became an integral part of the home landscape, no small thanks to the catalogs of the seed and nursery industries.…