And now, as they say, for something completely different… My first daylily of the year! I’m not sure what this variety is called (I swiped it from my mom’s garden last year), but it’s now the first daylily to open for the second year in a row… I love how it looks against the industrial […]
gardens
Roses of Sharon and Jericho
Here’s a picture of my latest garden surprise a Rose of Sharon bush that looked all but dead when we moved in, miraculously came back to life, and then lost a bunch of leaves when we transplanted it to the other side of the garden. Needless to say, I was not expecting flowers, but flowers […]
The brave new world of bonsai
I made an impulse purchase at the garden center recently: a beautiful little dwarf pomegranate that I walked by and fell in love with. It’s too cold here in New York to let it winter outdoors, but for the moment it looks fabulous in its little pot on my patio. Apparently, dwarf pomegranates are very […]
Tulips!
I’ve got all the enthusiasm of a beginning gardener and very little skill or knowledge so it feels like a bit of a miracle to see my tulips blossoming. Meanwhile, I’ve been removing dead debris from the rest of the flower bed and slowly acquiring more plants. Now if I could only persuade the neighborhood […]
Country, city, compost
When I was growing up, my mother always kept a yuck bucket under the sink to store our biodegradable waste: stale bread, leftovers, eggshells and coffee grounds… periodically, someone would be tasked with taking it outside and dumping its contents on top of her compost pile. Here in New York City, though, composting is rarely […]
How does your garden grow?
Winter always seems to overstay its welcome, but this year I’ve got a new reason to look forward to spring: after years of apartment living, I recently moved into a small house in Red Hook, Brooklyn, which means, among other things, that I now have my own little yard. There wasn’t much growing when we […]
