This is the time of the year the purple flowers of the wisteria vine put on their show. America's most famous wisteria has to be the one that climbs thirty feet up the side of President John Adams' house, part of…
In the Victorian era in order to create the flashy flowerbeds called carpet beds or ribbon beds, a gardener had to employ an array of colorful plants, usually annuals. Luckily, thanks to plant hunters, there were annuals arriving from Asia,…
Today I saw trays of spring flowers outside the supermarket. Though I loved seeing them as a sign of spring, they also reminded me of my current dilemma. I have been trapped in our condominium for six weeks now, due…
We can learn a great deal about gardening by looking at garden history. A new book Iowa Gardens of the Past by Beth Cody takes the reader on a journey of gardening in Iowa since 1850. In the process of…
You might easily associate the flower garden with the work of women. After all, isn't that how people thought about flowers in the garden? Is it still true that men take care of the lawn and the vegetable patch and…