It’s January and winter has only just begun. Outside my window snow squalls are, well, squalling. True, here in the Berkshires the weather has been unseasonably kind so far, so I can’t complain about snow accumulating in the middle of January. We’ve had relatively mild temperatures, and the landscape has been decidedly brown—up until this … Continue reading What’s a Gardener to Do?
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No Time for Resolutions
In January, the garden’s color palette is decidedly brown. Buds formed late last summer and fall on the lilac and other spring-blooming shrubs are far too small for their greenness to be easily seen. And while the grass in neighbors’ yards is still remarkably colorful this year, I’ve eliminated my lawn, replacing it with mulched … Continue reading No Time for Resolutions
And The Sun Came Out
The one good thing about a late-winter blizzard in New England is that no matter how much snow Mother Nature dumps on our doorsteps, we know it’s going to melt in the not too distant future. And so it is with this year’s March madness that dumped two feet of snow at my doorstep and … Continue reading And The Sun Came Out
And There’s Snow
“And there’s snow” is probably an odd way to begin something about March in western Massachusetts, but coming at the end of a mild winter where marathon shoveling sessions have been few and far between, this week’s storm was a doozy. At the end of it all, I measured two feet of the white stuff … Continue reading And There’s Snow
Pen, Paper, Plant 