I love the weigela shrub. At the edge of our front lawn the old-fashioned weigela florida has bloomed each spring for many years. Did you know, according to Michael Dirr's Manual of Woody Landscape Plants, there are 170 varieties of…
To sell seeds and plants in the nineteenth century the garden industry had to rely on botanical art to persaude a customer. The commercial botanical artist like Dellon Marcus Dewey (1819-1889) provided colorful illustrations for the plant sales person. When…
What amazed me in the last few days was the number of articles I read about an increase in gardening over the past year. The Boston Globe ran a story with the title "Sowing Seeds of Climate Action in the…
As we enter the new year, Pope Francis offers some wonderful guidance. The Pope writes in his new encyclical Fratelli Tutti "No one can possess the whole truth or satisfy his or her every desire, since that pretension would lead…
Right now I am looking for opportunities to talk about my new book All about Flowers: James Vick's Nineteenth-Century Seed Company. The book will be out in late April. Ohio University Press will publish the book just in time for…