I must say a few words of kindness for our native common witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana), the last woody plant of the year […]

I’ve always enjoyed it when dragonflies visited the garden, but I realized I didn’t know much about them. I knew […]

Is there anything more satisfying than golden ginkgo leaves backed by blue autumn skies? Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) delivers taxi-cab-yellow foliage […]

It’s nice to know that not all late summer- and fall-blooming perennials are DYC’s (Damn Yellow Composites). Their brassy gold faces […]

All plants have their pros and cons. Writers of plant and seed catalogs try to paint each plant in the […]