Garden Diary

Here is where you can read all about my garden plants, and other topics of interest.
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(mostly) horticultural happenings. Or go directly to the most recent entries in June 2023

Entries relating to specific pages for my covid-19 preps, cooking, public safety may be found here

Gardening books that I have reviewed in 2021 can be found here

What's in bloom at BelleWood Gardens. BelleWood in Bloom 2023 Last Updated: 12 February 2023

You can also see when what flowered in previous years

BelleWood in Bloom 2020 BelleWood in Bloom 2019 BelleWood in Bloom 2018
BelleWood in Bloom 2017 BelleWood in Bloom 2016 BelleWood in Bloom 2015
BelleWood in Bloom 2014 BelleWood in Bloom 2013 BelleWood in Bloom 2012
BelleWood in Bloom 2011 BelleWood in Bloom 2010 BelleWood in Bloom 2009
BelleWood in Bloom 2008 BelleWood in Bloom 2007 BelleWood in Bloom 2006

What to do when, in the garden. Opinionated gardeners. Favorite books.

Seasonal Care of the Garden The Opinionated Gardener A Meme of Garden Books

Come travel with me and enjoy these entries for symposiums I've attended and trips I've taken.

Red Rock Country of Sedona, Arizona A Week Up the Mountain at Purgatory
Holland in Tulip Time: 2012-04 Garden Writers Association in Portland, Oregon: 2008-09
Perennial Plant Association in Philadelphia: 2008-07 A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast: 2007-08 / 09
Garden Writers' Get-Together in Philadelphia: 2006-08 Puerto Rico: 2006-07

Month by Month

  • June
    First Week: Old Time Base Ball at Howell Living History Farm; Come Butter Come
    Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
    Designed for Nature: Garden of Jeff and Mary Jo Buckwalter
    Designed for Nature: Garden of Kristin and Jeff Winters
    Designed for Nature: Garden of Sarah Goodyear and Cyrus Morgan
    Designed for nature: Garden of Susan Talia Delone and Lawrence Kennedy
    Designed For Nature: Garden of Kevin and Susan Baker

  • May
    First Week: The Color Purple
    Fourth Week: Memorial Day Parade

  • April
    First Week: Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park

  • March
    Third Week: Tree Work

  • February 2023
    Second Week: Superbowl Barbecue at Quakertown Fire Company
    Third Week: Biochar; Another Visit to Phillips Farm Stand
    Fourth Week: A Visit to the Asian Food Market

  • January 2023
    Fourth Week: Phillips Farm Stand; Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company

  • December 2022
    First Week: St Nicholas Day at Erwin Stover House: Herbal Honeys online workshop
    Second Week: Feeding Backyard Birds, a talk at Kingwood Feed & Mercantile

  • November 2022
    Second Week: UPCOMING: The Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
    Third Week: Holiday Train Show Opens This Weekend
    Fourth Week: Thanksgiving Dinner for Two; This and That at the New York Botanical Garden; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; GLOW at the New York Botanical Garden

  • October 2022
    Third Week: A Good Day's Work by Steve and Son Tree Company

  • September 2022
    Third Week: Greenhouse Roof Replacement

  • August 2022
    Third Week: No rain. There is a drought.
    Fourth Week: Rain Returns and Summer Bulbs Are Happy; Rhodophiala Returns with the Rain

  • June 2022
    First Week: Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love: African American Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Dairying at the Howell Living History Farm
    Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
    Marcello and Priya Mangano Garden
    Ann Boyer and Steve Auslander's Garden
    Beverley Rhinesmith and Paul Patent Garden
    Fourth Week: The View From Federal Twist, a book review

  • May 2022
    First Week: Dragon Tree, Paulownia fortunei; Upcoming Garden Conservancy Open Days in May; Gardens of the Garden State, a book review
    Second Week: Garden Conservancy Open Days: Anita Shearan Garden; Garden Conservancy Open Days: Bird Haven Farm; Upcoming in June: The View From Federal Twist, A Trifecta
    Third Week: Garden Conservancy Open Days: Gardens at Half Moon
    Fourth Week: Upcoming in June at the New York Botanical Garden: Around the Table: Stories of the Foods We Love; Upcoming in June at Reeves-Reed Arboretum: Cottage Gardens Then and Now

  • March 2022
    First Week: Garden Styles: Vegetable Gardens

  • February 2022
    Second Week: Barbeque at the Quakertown NJ Fire Company; Storing Fresh Mushrooms
    Fourth Week: Freezing Rain; The Color Purple

  • January 2022
    Fourth Week: Garden Styles: Herbs in the Garden

  • December 2021
    First Week: Christmas at Howell Living History Farm
    Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden

  • November 2021
    First Week: Autumn's Produce at Phillips Farm Market; Making Cider at Howell Living History Farm; Farm Animals at Howell Living History farm
    Second Week: Flower Flash, a book review; Making Sausage and Scrapple at Howell Living History Farm
    Third Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden, a preview; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm
    Fourth Week: Thanksgiving Dinner for Two; Duck Redux

  • October 2021
    First Week: Lenape Lifeways program at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Fire Alarms Are Making Noise . . .
    Third Week: Tea at The Spinnery; Edible Flowers; How, Why and When We Eat Flowers; The Art of Leaf Embroidery
    Fourth Week: Another Sunday Tea at The Spinnery; All Hallow's Eve

  • September 2021
    Second Week: Making Driveway Repairs After September's Storm
    Third Week: Open Day Garden Visit to Hay Honey Farm
    Fourth Week: Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants & Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, a book review

  • August 2021
    Second Week: Upcoming at the New York Botanical Garden on August 14 & 21 Make Ink: A Forager's Guide; About Making Ink, A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking
    Third Week: About Supplies and Making Foraged Ink
    Fourth Week: Make Ink: A Forager's Guide to Natural Inkmaking, a book review

  • July 2021
    Second Week: Upcoming on July 23, a free webinarFood and Culture of the Latinx World
    Third Week: Garden Conservancy Open Day in Hunterdon County, New Jersey: The Garden at Federal Twist; Pretty Bird Farm

  • June 2021
    Third Week: Designed for Nature Garden Tour
    Fourth Week: Rosa, the story of the rose, a book review

  • May 2021
    First Week: Six On Saturday; Flowers Around Town in May
    Second Week: Again, Six On Saturday; Repotting Rabbit Foot Fern
    Third Week: Three for Saturday
    Fourth Week: Six On Saturday at the End of May

  • April 2021
    First Week: A Forest for the Centuries; Flowers Around Town in April; Upcoming at the New York Botanical Garden: Kusama: Zoominar and Exhibition
    Second Week: Six On Saturday
    Third Week: Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature, a Webinar; Another Six On A Different Saturday
    Fourth Week: Saturday's Six; Kusama: Cosmic Nature at the New York Botanical Gardens; Tulips at the New York Botanical Gardens

  • March 2021
    Second Week: Vaccination for Covid-19
    Third Week: Year of the Hyacinth; Tree Work
    Fourth Week: Hummelo, A Journey Through a Plantsman's Life, a book review; Carving a Tree; Flowers Around Town, in March

  • February 2021
    Third Week: Phillips Farms Tour; About Lentils

  • January 2021
    First Week: Dried Bean Dishes
    Fourth Week: Herbarium: The Quest to Preserve & Classify the World's Plants, a book review

  • December 2020
    First Week: Another Visit to Phillips Farm Market; Fennel and Carrot Confit
    Second Week: A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, a book review
    Fourth Week: Greenfeast: Autumn, Winter, a book review

  • November 2020
    Third Week: Lovely Produce at Phillips Farm Market; Garden Portraits, Experiences of Natural Beauty, a book review
    Fourth Week: Our Thanksgiving Dinner; Seasonal Decorations

  • October 2020
    First Week: Oktoberfest at the Quakertown Fire Company
    Second Week: Autumn Landscape Garden Plants, Part II
    Third Week: Time to Move the Bananas Indoors

  • September 2020
    Fourth Week: Preparing for Winter; Autumn Arrives: The Astronomical First Day of Fall; Autumn's Bulbs - the Colchicums; Today I Transplanted Some Colchicums; Autumn Interest in the Landscape Garden; Cultivated, The Elements of Floral Style, a book review

  • August 2020
    First Week: Flowers Around Town in August
    various dates in August Omnium Gatherum, a collection of miscellaneous things

  • July 2020
    First Week: Daylilies and Deer; Blueberry Summer: The History of Blueberry Cultivation; Today I Divided a Pot of Crinum
    Second Week: Blueberry Summer - Part Two: The Cultivation of Blueberries; Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden in Summer
    Third Week: Flowers Around Town in July; Blueberry Summer: Cooking with Blueberries
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Aquascapes; Thai Style Chicken in Lotus Leaf Wrap

  • June 2020
    First Week: The Turtle Came Back
    Second Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden; Exciting Turtle Rescue; Natural Palettes, Inspiration from Plant-Based Color, a book review
    Third Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden, Redux
    Fourth Week: Janet's Victorious Vegetable Garden Keeps On Growing; Flowers Around Town in June

  • May 2020
    Fourth Week: Beyond the North Wind, Russia in Recipes and Lore, a book review; Flowers Around Town in May

  • April 2020
    First Week: Growing Greens on a Windowsill in the Days of Covid-19; Starting to Sprout: Mung Beans; Starting to Sprout: Rainbow Sprinkles Microgreens
    Second Week: Making Chili
    Fourth Week: A Year at Brandywine Cottage, a book review; Flowers Around Town in April

  • March 2020
    with multiple updates Hope for the Best: Prepping for Covid-19
    Third Week: Public Gardens to Visit in the Days of Covid-19
    Fourth Week: Kokedama and Marimo; Flowers Around Town in March; A History of Zinnias, a book review

  • February 2020
    First Week: Superbowl Sunday Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company: Orchid Modern: Living & Designing with the World's Most Elegant Houseplants, a book review
    Second Week: Orchid Show at The New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: Making Maple Syrup at the Howell Living History Farm; Raptors at the Wildlife Art Gallery; Hope for the Best: Prepping for Covid-19 with updates; Tropical Fruits

  • January 2020
    Third Week: Barbecue at the Quakertown Fire Company
    Third Week: Water in Winter
    Fourth Week: The Complete Book of Ferns, a book review

  • December 2019
    First Week: Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County, NJ Library
    Second Week: Christmas On the Howell Living History Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
    Third Week: The Ultimate Instant Pot® Cookbook for Two, a book review
    Fourth Week: Moss: Discover. Gather. Grow, a book review

  • November 2019
    First Week: About Buckwheat, A Program at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Winterizing Bananas
    Second Week: Cheese Festival at ShopRite; Late Autumn Harvest
    Third Week: Coming Attraction: Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden; Japanese Pickled Vegetables, a book review
    Fourth Week: All Aboard for the Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm

  • October 2019
    First Week: Summer's End, Garden Harvest
    Third Week: Nature Into Art, The Gardens of Wave Hill, a book review

  • September 2019
    First Week: Riverfest at Frenchtown; Tu Casa Mi Casa, a book review
    Second Week: Sheep and Things at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Beer, Tea and Todies at the Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; A Brief Visit to Hay Honey Farm; An Afternoon at Willowwood Arboretum; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Ellistan; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Jardin de Buis, Strolling Around Outside; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Jardin de Buis, Enjoying the Indoors; Garden Conservancy Open Days - A Visit to Bird Haven Farm
    Third Week: Saga of the Nesting Box Turtle
    Fourth Week: First Day of Autumn; Tohickon Garden Club Goes to the New York Botanical Garden; Talk and Tea at the Cross Estate Gardens; Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, a book review

  • August 2019
    First Week: Superhydrophobic. It Means Never Wet.
    Second Week: Fordhook Farm, A Garden Conservancy's Open Days Visit; Kitchen Garden at Fordhook Farm, A Garden Conservancy Open Days Visit; Potato Harvest Events at Howell Living History Farm
    Third Week: Another Visit to An Exemplary Vegetable Garden
    Fourth Week: The Gardener's Book of Color, a book review; Plowing Match at the Howell Living History Farm

  • July 2019
    First Week: Peace Valley Plein Air Watercolorists
    Second Week: God Bless The Grass
    Third Week: An Exemplary Vegetable Garden
    Fourth Week: Grow Great Vegetables in New Jersey, Grow Great Vegetables in Pennsylvania, a book review; Bananas Love Summer; Sarracenia at Aquascapes Nursery; Other Water Plants at Aquascapes Unlimited Nursery

  • June 2019
    First Week: Brazilian Modern: The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx; The Art of Roberto Burle Marx, and Miscellany at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: Perennial Extravaganza at Linden Hill Gardens; Five Vermont Gardens
    Third Week: Designed for Nature: Six Gardens
    Fourth Week: Blooms: Contemporary Floral Design, a book review

  • May 2019
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Skylands Manor and the New Jersey Botanical Garden; A Visit to Ringwood Manor
    Fifth Week: The Architecture of Trees, a book review

  • April 2019
    First Week: Made for the Shade, keynote lecture at the 2019 Gardener's Day; Hellebore Festival at Linden Hill Gardens; Hellebore Planting and Care
    Fourth Week: Barbecue Rules, a book review plus Perfect Homemade Ice Cream, a book review
    A Visit to Sedona, Arizona Cacti in the Red Rock Country of Sedona, Arizona; A Visit to Arcosanti in Arizona; Arizona Pueblo Visits; A Visit to Tlaquepaque; Arizona Omnium Gatherum

  • March 2019
    First Week: At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Flower Power; At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Art and Arrangements; At the Philadelphia Flower Show - Omnium Gatherum
    Third Week: Horticultural Chat Room at Linden Hill Gardens; Shrubs, Discover the Perfect Plant for Every Place in Your Garden, a book review
    Fourth Week: Tohickon Garden Club at Linden Hill Gardens

  • February 2019
    First Week: Polar Vortex; Braised Pork and Beans with update
    Third Week: Barley, Another Grain
    Fourth Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; A Taste for Herbs, a book review

  • January 2019
    First Week: A January Lunch with update; Readying for Winter
    Fourth Week: Arranging with Produce, Fruits and Flowers; Atlas of Poetic Botany, a book review

  • December 2018
    First Week: A Winter Day at Atlock Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
    Second Week: Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County Library
    Third Week: The Japanese Art of Shinrin Yoku Forest Bathing, a book review; Among Trees, a guided journal for forest bathing, a book review
    Fourth Week: A British Kind of Christmas Dinner; For Flowers, Just Add Water - Paperwhite Narcissus; Holiday Decorations

  • November 2018
    First Week: Apple Day at Howell Living History Farm; Barnyard Livestock at Howell Living History Farm; Traditional Smokehouses
    Second Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Spider Chrysanthemums at the New York Botanical Garden; Football Mums at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn Color at Willowwood Arboretum
    Third Week: Jam Session, a book review
    Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; A Visit to Wave Hill

  • October 2018
    First Week: Foraging for Mushrooms; Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm; Canning Tomato Sauce
    Third Week: A Day of Garden Visits
    Fourth Week: Fresh Food for Food Banks; Natural Dyeing with Plants; Flower Color Guide, a book review; Pumpkin Time

  • September 2018
    First Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
    Second Week: Sheep at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Spinners at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Vendors at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show; Repotting Rhodophiala
    Third Week: A Visit to Willowwood Arboretum; Garden Decor at Willowwood Arboretum
    Fourth Week: Autumn Abundance at Bamboo Brook; Fungus Fest; A Visit to Meadowbrook Farm; Stylish Succulents, a book review

  • August 2018
    Second Week: About Corn
    Third Week: Just Peachy; Plants and Gardens at Wave Hill; Panna Cotta Cooking Demonstration at Wave Hill
    Fourth Week: A Day at the Fair - Livestock; A Day at the Fair - Produce and Poultry; A Day at the Fair - Antique Tractors; Planting Native to Attract Birds to Your Yard, a book review

  • July 2018
    First Week: Coping with Weeds, Part One
    Second Week: Scented Geranium Day at Wave Hill; Soap Making Workshop at Wave Hill; Lilies and Hydrangeas at Wave Hill; Bellsflower Farm, an Open Days Garden; Garden at Federal Twist, an Open Days Garden
    Fourth Week: Fungus Foray at Horseshoe Bend Park; Cornfest at Cervenka Farm; Growing Heirloom Flowers, a book review

  • June 2018
    First Week: New Jersey Mycological Association Wild Food Foray and Potluck Lunch
    Second Week: At Wave Hill: Poppies in the Garden and in the Kitchen; At Wave Hill: Poppy Look-a-Likes; At Wave Hill: Big Trees, Other Plants, Family Fun, and Avifauna
    Third Week: Soirée at Colonial Park Rose Garden; Saladish, a book review; Upcoming in July Scented Geranium Day at Wave Hill

  • May 2018
    First Week: A Visit to Willowwood Arboretum; A Visit to Bamboo Brook Gardens
    Second Week: Coming Soon: Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden; Tree Work
    Third Week: Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden, Part One; Georgia O'Keeffe's Hawai'i at the New York Botanical Garden, Part Two; Azaleas and Peonies at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: Trees of Morris Arboretum; Gardens at the Morris Arboretum; Water in the Landscape at the Morris Arboretum; Gardens at Half Moon, a Garden Conservancy Open Days garden; Paxson Hill Farm, a Garden Conservancy Open Days garden; Design Your Garden, a book review

  • April 2018
    First Week: Getting Down to It; Is It Spring Yet?
    Second Week: Hellebores at Linden Hill Gardens
    Third Week: April Rain; Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park, Part One; Flowering Cherry Trees at Branch Brook Park, Part Two
    Fourth Week: Glorious Shade, a book review

  • March 2018
    First Week: March Arrives Like a Lion; Cacao at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum; Wonders of Water at the Philadelphia Flower Show
    Third Week: Green (Flowers) for St. Patrick's Day; Green for St. Patrick's Day; Doctor, Dentist, Farrier at Howell Living History Farm; Flowers for Spring; Hyacinths for Nowruz
    Fourth Week: Cooking with Cactus at Wave Hill; Succulent Care and Cultivation at Wave Hill; Early Flowers at Wave Hill; Success with Succulents, a book review

  • February 2018
    Second Week: Mycophagy; The Trees of North America, a book review
    Third Week: Winter Kitchen at the Howell Living History Farm; Onion Snow
    Fourth Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden

  • January 2018
    Third Week: What I Had For Lunch
    Fourth Week: Garden Renovation, a book review; Mushrooms Matter; Wild Medicine at the New York Botanical Garden; Winter on the River

  • December 2017
    First Week: Atlock Farm Winter Celebration; Christmas at Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
    Second Week: Gifts for Gardeners: A Calendar, Daily Planner, Garden Journal reviewed
    Third Week: Winter Quarter Day; Gingerbread Houses at the Hunterdon County Library
    Fourth Week: Christmas Dinner with Three Updates

  • November 2017
    Second Week: British White Cattle in Autumn
    Third Week: Autumn Crafts; Winter Protection for Bananas; Coming Soon - The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show; Foraging and Feasting: A Field Guide and Wild Food Cookbook - book review
    Fourth Week: The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show; Thanksgiving Weekend in Massachusetts

  • October 2017
    First Week: Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm
    Second Week: Iron Mountain Peaches
    Fourth Week: Gardens of the High Line, a book review; A Visit to the Gardens of the High Line; An Autumn Visit to the Fairy House Trail; Back Picking Apples at Snyder Research Farm

  • September 2017
    First Week: British White Cattle; Dyeing Wool with Native Plants
    Second Week: Open Days - Bird Haven Farm; Open Days - Jardin de Buis, Part One: Outside; Open Days - Jardin de Buis, Part Two: Inside; Garden State Sheep Breeders Sheep and Fiber Festival; At Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum - A Traditional Pickle
    Third Week: House Jungle: Turn Your Home Into A Plant-Filled Paradise!, a book review
    Fourth Week: Howell Living History Farm: Sowing Winter Wheat; Fungus Fest

  • August 2017
    First Week: Picnic at the Cross Estate Gardens;
    Third Week: Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk

  • 18 through 25 August A Week Up the Mountain at Purgatory
    Saturday, 19 August: A Mushroom Foray Up the Mountain
    Saturday, 19 August Fungi Fest in Purgatory
    Sunday, 20 August: Black Bear Pass Trail - Signs and Scenery
    Sunday, 20 August: Black Bear Pass Trail - alpine plants in bloom
    Sunday, 20 August: Purgatory Interlude of Outings and Scenery
    Monday, 21 August: A Day in Durango
    Monday, 21 August: Honey House Distillery
    Thursday, 24 August: Dinner at the Dalton Ranch Golf Club

  • July 2017
    First Week: A-Tisket, A-Tasket, Looking at Some Baskets
    Third Week: Bananas in the Garden; Putting Food By: Sour Cherries; Potted: Make Your Own Stylish Garden Containers
    Fourth Week: Refrigerator Eggplant Pickle; Garden Expo at the Clinton (New Jersey) Library; Making Bird Houses from Gourds; Fairy House Trail in Millburn, New Jersey

  • June 2017
    First Week: Millersville Native Plants in Landscape Conference: Pre-Conference Dinner
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Evening Social
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Plant Sale
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Demonstrations, and a Cow
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Kollar Nursery
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Ladew Gardens
    Millersville Native Plants in the Landscape Conference: Saturday in Maryland - Cavano's Perennial Nursery
    Third Week: Plant: Exploring the Botanical World, a book review

  • May 2017
    First Week: Soirée at the Presby Memorial Iris Garden; Making Ice Cream at the Bouman Stickney Museum
    Third Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
    Fourth Week: Floret Farm's Cut Flower Garden, a book review; Country Garden Shed Nursery; Refreshments on the Forest Deck

  • April 2017
    First Week: An April Garden Party
    Third Week: Chihuly Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden; Part One; Chihuly Exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, Part Two
    Fourth Week: Gardenista, a book review;
    Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: A Prologue: Henry Foundation for Botanical Research
    Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Nemours, the Estate of Alfred I. duPont
    Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Mt Cuba Center
    Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Mt Cuba Center - Plant Trials
    Garden Writers Region II DuPont Triple Play: Winterthur
    Blue Bottle / Green Garden; A Morning at the Scott Arboretum

  • March 2017
    First Week: The Vegetable Butcher, a book review; Winter Chat Room at Linden Hill Gardens; It's Cold Outside; A Winter Kitchen's Meal at Bouman Stickney
    Second Week: It's Coming! The Philadelphia Flower Show; A Visit to the Philadelphia Flower Show
    Fourth Week: Consider the Lowly Cabbage; Insulating the Greenhouse

  • February 2017
    First Week: Winter's Cross Quarter Day
    Second Week: February Snow; A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm
    Third Week: Orchids at the New York Botanical Garden; The Culinary Herbal, a book review

  • January 2017
    Fourth Week: Garden Flora, a book review

  • December 2016
    First Week: Winter Event at Atlock Flower Farm; 18th Century Dutch Christmas at the Bouman Stickney Farmstead Museum
    Second Week: Storing Firewood; Gingerbread Houses at the County Library
    Third Week: Mindfulness in the Forest
    Fourth Week: Patterns of Nature - Iridescence

  • November 2016
    First Week: Winterizing Outdoor Bananas; A Visit to Van Nest Hoff-Vannatta Farmstead; Open Hearth Cooking at Bouman Stickney Farmstead: Cooking with Quinces; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
    Third Week: Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm

  • October 2016
    First Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: It's Pumpkin Time
    Fourth Week: Apple Picking at Snyder Research Farm

  • September 2016
    First Week: Plowing Match at Howell Living History Farm; Riverfest at Frenchtown
    Second Week: Sheep at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Sheep Herding at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival; Fiber Crafts at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Festival
    Fourth Week: The Garden at Federal Twist: A Prairie Style Garden

  • August 2016
    First Week: Blacksmith and Farrier at Howell Living History Farm
    Fourth Week: Hydrangea How-To; A Day at the Fair; Arboreal: of or relating to trees

  • July 2016
    Third Week: Dinner at the Platform; Stink, Stank, Stunk: Corpse Flower at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: Blueberry Raspberry Jam; Garden Expo in Clinton, New Jersey; Getting Potted; Stink, Stank, Stunk: Corpse Flower at the New York Botanical Garden; Threshing Wheat at Howell Living History Farm

  • June 2016
    First Week: Keyport Garden Walk
    Third Week: Dairy 101; A Garden Visit

  • May 2016
    First Week: Coming Soon - Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: Soiree at Leonard J. Buck Garden; Impressionism: American Gardens on Canvas at the New York Botanical Garden; A Caturday with Cats and Kittens
    Third Week: An Update On the Kittens
    Fourth Week: Making Hay

  • April 2016
    Second Week: There's Something About the Weather
    Third Week: Historic Walnford; Springtime Garden Party
    Fourth Week: Making Lumber

  • March 2016
    First Week: Winter Kitchen at the Howell Living History Farm; Open Hearth Cooking at the Howell Living History Farm; Maple Syrup Making at the Howell Living History Farm; This and That at the Howell Living History Farm; Come Butter Come; Making Cheese at Bouman Stickney Museum
    Fourth Week: First Spring

  • February 2016
    First Week: Putting Food By - Making Sauerkraut; Bouman Stickney Museum - Open Hearth Cooking with Chocolate
    Third Week: Water and Cat; Orchidelirium
    Fourth Week: Orchidelirium at the New York Botanical Garden

  • January 2016
    Third Week: In Memoriam, Gerald Barad; A Flying Saucer Bird Feeder
    Fourth Week: Nana's Stuffed Cabbage

  • December 2015
    First Week: Christmas at Howell Farm; A Dutch Christmas at Bouman Stickney Museum
    Second Week: Gingerbread at the County Library; A Social Evening at the Roseberry Homestead; The Curious Cat; Ramsayburg Homestead and Environs; Christmas Cactus; Solstice Flowers; Christmas Dinner

  • November 2015
    First Week: Three-fer On Sunday
    Second Week: Sausage, Scrapple, Bacon Making at Howell Living History Farm; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Logging with Horses at the Howell Living History Farm

  • October 2015
    Third Week: Beth Baikow's Garden; Ladew Topiary Garden; Ladew Gardens; A Visit to the Van Nest Farmstead; Military Reenactors at the Van Nest Farmstead; Corn Harvest at the Howell Living History Farm

  • September 2015
    First Week: Plowing Match at the Howell Living History Farm
    Second Week: Garden State Sheep Breeders Show
    Fourth Week: A Week in Purgatory: Part One; A Week in Purgatory: Mesa Verde, Cliff Dwellings of the Ancient Ones; A Week in Purgatory: All the Wheels Go Round and Round; A Week in Purgatory: Where the Road and the Sky Come Together

  • August 2015
    Fourth Week: Botanical Art

  • July 2015
    First Week: Currants and Gooseberries
    Third Week: Mill Fleur, The Garden of Barbara Tiffany

  • June 2015
    First Week: Too Wet or Too Dry: What's Your Preference?
    Fourth Week: Oyster Mushrooms; Sour Cherries

  • May 2015
    First Week: Great Gardens to Visit in New Jersey - Presby Memorial Iris Garden
    Second Week: Casa Azul - Frida Kahlo at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: Coping with Drought

  • April 2015
    Fourth Week: Open Days Gardens in New Jersey; Daffodil Woods

  • March 2015
    Second Week: Preparing for Spring at the Garden at Federal Twist

  • February 2015
    Third Week: Who Visits BelleWood Gardens?
    Fourth Week: Vietnamese Mycophagy; Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden

  • January 2015
    Fourth Week: January Snow

  • December 2014
    First Week: Poinsettias at Peace Tree Farm; Gingerbread Houses at the County Library; A Dutch Christmas at the Bouman Stickney Museum
    Second Week: Fanciful Gingerbread Houses at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum; The Gleaners

  • November 2014
    First Week: American Persimmons; Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman Stickney Museum
    Second Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Winterizing My Banana

  • October 2014
    First Week: The Garden at Federal Twist with November Update; Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman Stickney Museum

  • September 2014
    First Week: Another Visit to Snyder Research Farm; Sheep, Fleece, and Fiber Show

  • August 2014
    First Week: A Visit to Hay Honey Farm
    Second Week: A Vegetable Vampire
    Third Week: Chicken of the Woods
    Fourth Week:A Garden Club Visit to Tassot Apiary; Plowing Match at Howell Living History Farm

  • July 2014
    First Week: Blueberry Summer
    Second Week: An Ecological Study at Mt. Cuba
    Third Week: The Gardens at Federal Twist
    Fourth Week: Farm to Store Tour

  • June 2014
    Second Week: Native, Naturalized, Exotic: Longood's Meadow Garden
    Third Week: Planting Potatoes

  • May 2014
    First Week: Divide and Multiply; Summer and Strawberries; Snyder Research Farm
    Fourth Week: Well Sweep Herb Farm

  • April 2014
    First Week: Little Bulbs of Early Spring
    Second Week: After the Long Winter, A Garden Party
    Fourth Week: Woodland Wildflowers at Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve; Plant Sale at the Leonard J. Buck Garden; Open Day Visit to Hay Honey Farm; An Orchard in Bloom

  • March 2014
    First Week: Maple Syrup, A Sweet End to Winter
    Third Week: Backyard Maple Syruping; First Flowers; A Visit to a Smokehouse

  • February 2014
    First Week: Winter Flowers in the Greenhouse
    Second Week: Mushrooms and Pasta
    Fourth Week: Freesias, Fragrant Freesias; A Winter Escape, With Orchids

  • January 2014
    First Week: Snow and Birds
    Third Week: Knit On Wednesday
    Fourth Week: Ice

  • December 2013
    First Week: Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman Stickney Museum
    Second Week: Wintertime
    Fourth Week: New Beginnings; Duck and Mushroom Strudel

  • November 2013
    First Week: Everything But The Squeal: Sausage and Scrapple Making at the Howell Living History Farm; Open Hearth Cooking at the Bouman-Stickney Museum; Another Visit to The Cloisters; A Visit to Wave Hill
    Second Week: Cider Making at the Howell Living History Farm; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
    Third Week: A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm; Rosemary and Thyme at Russell Gardens Wholesale with December update

  • October 2013
    First Week: A Visit to The Cloisters; The Bonnefont Cloister
    Third Week: The Garden at Federal Twist
    Fourth Week: The Tohickon Garden Club's Apple Fest

  • September 2013
    First Week: Sue's Dahlias; A Garden Visitor
    Second Week: Sheep at Their Show; Activities and Happenings at the Sheep Festival
    Third Week: Book Signing at the Farmers Market
    Fourth Week: Equinox Dinner; Northview, the Garden of Jenny Rose Carey; A Visit to Tassot Apiaries; Frenchtown Green Fair; Fungus Fest

  • August 2013
    First Week: Rain Makes Mushrooms
    Fourth Week: A Morning at the Fair; A Morning at the Fair, Part II; August in the Garden with September update; Plowing Match at Howell Living History Farm

  • July 2013
    Second Week: Caging the (Cultivated) Blueberry
    Fourth Week: Livestock at the Lima Family Farm; Flowers and Food at the Lima Family Farm

  • June 2013
    First Week: Opening Day at the Frenchtown Farmers Market; Hosta at Russell Gardens
    Second Week: NJMA Goes Foraging at Deer Run Park
    Fourth Week: Open House at Atlock Farm; Cherries, Sour and Sweet; Carousel Farm Lavender: Provence in Pennsylvania; Carousel Farm Lavender: Part II; Water Plants at Aquascapes

  • May 2013
    Second Week: Propagating Shiitake Mushrooms; A Foraging We Will Go; Wild Medicine at the New York Botanical Garden; The Italian Renaissance Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
    Third Week: The Baptisia Trial Preview at Mt. Cuba; A Visit to Bob and Christa Stamper's Garden
    Fourth Week: Tohickon Garden Club's Visit to Betty Minnucci's Garden; Memorial Day

  • April 2013.
    Second Week: A Visit to Phillips Mushroom Farm
    Fourth Week: Salvaging Scilla litardierei; Getting Wet; The Native Plant Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; The Azalea Garden at the New York Botanical Garden

  • March 2013.
    Second Week: Snowdrops
    Third Week: Spring Equinox updated, updated again
    Fourth Week: Propagating Aconitum arendsii; What Do You See, Mr. Poe?

  • February 2013
    Second Week: Greenhouse Flowers
    Fourth Week: Mycophagy; Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Orchids at the New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show

  • January 2013
    First Week: New Year / New Lambs
    Second Week: Georgia's Sheep

  • December 2012
    First Week: Gingerbread Wonderland at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum
    Second Week: We Wish You A Merry Fruitcake; Cutting Firewood: A Well-Designed Sawbuck
    Fourth Week: Stacking Firewood: Der Holzhaufen

  • November 2012
    First Week: After the Superstorm - Updates; Native Harvest: Cranberries
    Second Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
    Third Week: November Visit to the Farmers Market; The Almost Winter Vegetable Garden; After the Superstorm: Woodcutting
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Tassot Apiaries - How Sweet It Is

  • October 2012
    First Week: Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island - Westbury House; Old Westbury Gardens on Long Island - Plants and Gardens; Clark Botanic Garden on Long Island
    Second Week: Another Dinner at Tara; A Garden On The Rocks; A Visit to Innisfree, Part I; A Visit to Innisfree, Part II
    Fourth Week: After the Superstorm

  • September 2012
    Second Week: Garden State Sheep Breeders Association Sheep & Fiber Festival, Part I; Garden State Sheep Breeders Association Sheep & Fiber Festival, Part II
    Third Week: Manolo Valdés Sculptures at the New York Botanical Garden; Putting Food By - Oven Roasted Tomatoes; A Plethora of Pumpkins at Traugers Farm Stand
    Fourth Week: Tinicum Herb Barn; Planting Fields Arboretum on Long Island

  • August 2012
    Second Week: It's a Peachy Month; Cows Outside at Bobolink Dairy
    Fourth Week: A Day at the 4-H Fair

  • July 2012
    Third Week: Summertime: Monet's Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Sunday at the Farmers Market
    Fourth Week: Pickled Garlic Scapes; A Visit to Aquascapes; Build-a-Bog at Aquascapes; Mushroom Foray at Hoffman Park; A Roadside Mini-Meadow; An Event at Mt. Cuba

  • June 2012
    First Week: Fiat Lux at Longwood Gardens
    Second Week: NJMA Foraging Foray
    Third Week: Open House at Atlock Farm
    Fourth Week: Ikebana Demonstration at the Tohickon Garden Club; Dinner at Tara

  • May 2012
    Second Week: A Visit to John Bartram's Garden
    Third Week: In the Wet: A Waterscaping Class at Mt. Cuba; Monet's Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Hortulus Garden: A Magical Moment in Monet's Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
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    Friday, 25 May: Garden Writers Region II Meeting: Goodstay Gardens; Gibraltar Garden; Nemours, Mansion and Gardens; Longwood Gardens; Garden Party

  • 19 through 27 April 2012 Holland in Tulip Time
    Friday, 20 April: Aalsmeer Flower Auction; Hortus Bulborum
    Saturday, 21 April: Keukenhof, Part I; Keukenhof, Part II; Keukenhof, Part III - the historical garden; Bloemencorso
    Sunday, 22 April: Out and About in Amsterdam
    Monday, 23 April: A Visit to the Bulb Fields; A Daffodil's Christening; Dainty Dwarf Hippeastrum; Up and Coming Daffodils; A Visit to the Leiden Botanic Garden
    Tuesday, 24 April: The Gardens of the Palais Het Loo; Plants in the Gardens of the Palais Het Loo; Statuary in the Gardens of the Palais Het Loo; The Gardens of Appeltern - water features; The Gardens of Appeltern - plants and gardens
    Wednesday, 25 April: The Floriade, An Overview; The Floriade, A Few Exhibits; Floriade, Bits and Pieces; Floriade, Produce and Food; Floriade, Plants and Flowers
    Thursday, 26 April: A Visit to the Amsterdam Tulip Museum
    Here and There, Now and Then: Miscellaneous and Scenic Images; Second Interlude - Food, Delicious Food

  • March 2012
    First Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Philadelphia Flower Show - Tropical Paradise, Hawaiian Style

  • February 2012
    First Week: Another Sign of Spring; Cooking with Mother Goose
    Second Week: Making Maple Syrup; More Grackles
    Third Week: Garden Maintenance: Caring for Hellebores; Second Time Around; Making Bacon; Supermarket Hellebores; More Maple Syruping

  • January 2012
    First Week: A Cackle of Grackles

  • December 2011
    First Week: Winter Open House at Atlock Farm
    Second Week: Bulb, Bird, Kitten at Atlock Farm
    Third Week: The Story of Domino's Adventure

  • November 2011
    First Week: Winterizing Banana Plants
    Second Week: Quinces
    Third Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Details of the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Cranberry Chutney
    Fourth Week: We Wish You A Merry Fruitcake; A Visit to Tassot Apiaries

  • October 2011
    First Week: Mushroom Foray
    Third Week: Up, Up, and Away; Flood Response in the Home Garden
    Fourth Week: October Snow

  • September 2011
    Second Week: After the Rain; Open Days - Pickle Farm; Open Days - Hay Honey Farm; Open Days - Tallquapie; Here Comes the Sun(flowers)
    Third Week: Maitake!; More Mushrooms
    Fourth Week: Fungus Fest; Fungus Fest Crafts; Gardens of Bryn Athyn Cathedral

  • August 2011
    First Week: Open Garden Days: the Jones Garden; Open Garden Days: Foliage Plants in the Jones Garden: Saving Summer in a Jar: Peach Jam
    Second Week: Guess Who?; Watnong Picnic at the Beavins Garden
    Third Week: Saving Summer in a Jar: Tasty Pickles
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm; Cows and Horses at the 4-H Fair; Poultry and Rabbits at the 4-H Fair; Sheep and Goats at the 4-H Fair; Agricultural Exhibits and Beekeepers at the 4-H Fair; Hurricane Irene, The Aftermath: UPDATE: 3 September 2011 - Power Restored

  • July 2011
    Second Week:     Smallholding Day at Linden Hill; Smallholding Day at Linden Hill, Part II
    Fourth Week: Garden Writers Meet at Willowwood Arboretum; Gardens Writers Move On To Bamboo Brook; The Gardener's Bookshelf; A Visit to the Tinicum Herb Barn

  • June 2011
    First Week: Herb Garden at Rutgers Gardens
    Second Week: Stinky Aroids; Not Quite A Poppy Field
    Third Week: Saving Summer in a Jar: Sour Cherries
    Fourth Week: Luncheon at the Kitchen Garden Cooking School; Sizzling Summer Bulbs; Blueberries; Watnong Soirée at Willowwood Arboretum

  • May 2011
    First Week: Azalea Garden at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: Shearing Alpacas; Swarming Bees; Linden Hill Gardens and Ottsville Farmers Market
    Third Week: Spanish Paradise: Gardens of the Alhambra at the New York Botanical Garden; Another Visit to the Azalea Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Earthly Delights
    Fourth Week: Watnong Garden Visit and Potluck Luncheon; Pennsbury Manor; Peony Talk at Back to Nature Home and Garden Center

  • April 2011
    First Week: Roadside Chionodoxa
    Second Week: Garden Party at the Silbersteins
    Third Week: Watnong Plant Sale at the Leonard J. Buck Garden; Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
    Fourth Week: Grand Opening of the Back to Nature Home and Garden Center; Bleeding Heart Flower Legend; En Plein Air

  • March 2011
    First Week: Behind the Scenes at the Philadelphia Flower Show - Setting Up Entries; Behind the Scenes at the Philadelphia Flower Show - Setting Up the Show
    Second Week: Roadside Snowdrops
    Fourth Week: Snow Scenes; On the Rocks at the New York Botanical Garden; Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; A Diversity of Orchids at the Orchid Show ; Moth Orchids at the Orchid Show; Backyard Chickens

  • February 2011
    Third Week: A Visit to Mutschler's Florist; Ott's Nursery

  • January 2011
    Third Week: Let's Hear It for the Garden State; New Year of the Trees

  • December 2010
    Second Week: Making Firewood
    Fourth Week: Dead Trees for Christmas

  • November 2010
    First Week: Why Do You Suppose
    Third Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Behind the Scenes at the Holiday Train Show; Autumn Colors at the New York Botanical Garden; Flower Arranging Workshop with the Tohickon Garden Club; Paws to Read

  • October 2010
    Second Week: Chanticleer, An Aubade; Wind Through the Trees at Jenkins Arboretum
    Third Week: An Architect's Garden
    Fourth Week: It's The Halloween Hoorah; It's the Great Pumpkin!

  • September 2010
    Second Week: Open Days - the Sternlieb Garden; Open Days - the Montsier Garden; Open Days - the Hardie Garden;
    Third Week: Chanticleer in Autumn

  • August 2010
    First Week: PANTS; Watnong Picnic UPDATE
    Fourth Week: Fowl at the Fair; Cows at the Fair

  • July 2010
    Fourth Week: Frenchtown Inn Planters

  • June 2010
    First Week:Digging Bamboo
    Fourth Week: Uncovering the Garden; Soirée at Bamboo Brook

  • May 2010
    First Week: Homage to Emily Dickinson; A Visit to Chanticleer; Chanticleer, Attention to Details; Chanticleer in Bloom in the Merry Month of May
    Second Week: A Misstep in May
    Fourth Week: Call Me Magellan

  • April 2010
    First Week: Geometry of Cutting A Tree; A Visit to Buck Garden; And A Visit to Willowwood; Down On My Knees
    Second Week: Back to Buck Garden; Garden Party
    Third Week: A Tumult of Tulips
    Fourth Week: A Visit to Winterthur; A Visit to Mt. Cuba; Covering Ground at Mt. Cuba; Mt. Cuba, Post Scriptum; Omnium Gatherum

  • March 2010
    First Week: Orchid Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Orchid Portraits from the New York Botanical Garden's Orchid Show
    Third Week: Little Bulbs in Bloom; Getting Potted
    Fourth Week: Flowering Trees at Rutgers Gardens

  • February 2010
    First Week: Potted Bulbs
    Second Week: 37 Days Until Spring
    Third Week: How Joe Saved the Coontie Patch

  • January 2010
    First Week: Sleeping Cat; Nakashima Reading Room at the Michner Museum

  • December 2009
    Second Week: Winter Visit to Leonard J. Buck Garden
    Third Week: Let It Snow; My Holiday Decorating Traditions
    Fourth Week: Yule Log

  • November 2009
    First Week: Autumn at the New York Botanical Garden; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Ginkgo at the New York Botanical Garden UPDATE and in New Jersey; Deer, Oh Dear
    Third Week:Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden, Part 2

  • October 2009
    First Week: A Flock of Mushrooms UPDATE
    Second Week: Framing a Path
    Fourth Week: Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden at the New York Botanical Garden

  • September 2009
    First Week: Open Day at North Creek Nurseries; Dansko LEED; Stroud Water Research Center; A Visit with Gloria Day; Toad
    Third Week: Author, Author at Linden Hill

  • August 2009
    First Week: Summer Storm II; The Edible Garden at the New York Botanical Garden; Summer in Four-Season Border at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: Driveway Repair
    Fourth Week: Brief Visit to Linden Hill; A Visit to Turnip Truck Garden UPDATE; Banana Leaf Cookery UPDATE

  • July 2009
    Second Week: Shopping for Plants; Paws to Read
    Third Week:Watnong Picnic; Grasslands; Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter; A Visit to Carousel Farm Lavender
    Fourth Week: Rutgers Gardens Open Day; Summer Storm; PANTS

  • June 2009
    First Week: Catnapping; Pinellia cordifolia; More Garden Visitors
    Second Week: Weed Eaters; Visits to Leonard Buck Garden
    Third Week: Solstice Sunset
    Fourth Week: Look What I Found!; Garden Club's Garden Visit; Sleek Sheep; Fruitful; Strange Clouds; Watch Where You Step!; Rainy Day Visitor

  • May 2009
    First Week: Visitors to BelleWood Gardens
    Second Week: Mushrooms
    Fourth Week: What's This?; A Visit to the Arboretum at Temple University Ambler; The Iris Garden at Delaware Valley College; Garden Conservancy's Open Days - 30 May: Jon Carloftis' garden; Cedaridge, garden of Derek and Carolyn Fell; Twin Silo Farm; Garden Conservancy's Open Days - 31 May: Greenwood; Jericho Mountain Orchards; Hortulus Farm

  • April 2009
    First Week: Rainbow in the Sky; Ornamental Grass Work Day at Rutgers Gardens
    Third Week: Sakura at Branch Brook Park
    Fourth Week: Flowering Trees at Willowwood Arboretum; The Glory of Dutch Bulbs at the New York Botanical Garden; 4-Season Border at the New York Botanical Garden; Old Stone Church

  • March 2009
    First Week:Winter's Last Snow
    Second Week: Patti's Charleston Garden; Middleton Place; Angel Oak; Nursery Visits Around Charleston; Omnium Gatherum Around Charleston; Fog Comes in On Little Cat Feet
    Third Week: Pruning Peach Trees UPDATE; Beautiful Bats UPDATE; Hellebore Weekend at Linden Hill

  • February 2009
    First Week: Nesting Squirrels
    Second Week: The Robins Have Returned
    Third Week: The Birds; Linden Hill Gardens Horticultural Chat Room
    Fourth Week: A Sign of Spring; Lady Lumberjack; Philadelphia Flower Show, Part 1: Statues

  • January 2009
    Third Week: Who Visits BelleWood Gardens?; More Moore, In Winter

  • December 2008
    Second Week: Winter Green; A Visit to Well Sweep Herb Farm
    Third Week: Cozy Cats
    Fourth Week:Holly and the Ivy

  • November 2008
    First Week: Who Lives Here?
    Second Week: Why We Call It Fall
    Third Week:Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Terrariums; Planting Bulbs in the Four Season Garden at The New York Botanical Garden

  • October 2008
    Third Week: Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Bonsai at the New York Botanical Garden; The Chrysanthemum in Japanese Art at the New York Botanical Garden; Monumental Sculptures: Henry Moore at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: An Evening Reception at the New York Botanical Garden; Tohickon Graden Club Visit to Buck Garden

  • August 2008
    Second Week: Hypertufa, Part I; Hypertufa, Part II
    Third Week: A Visit to Willowwood; Onward, to Buck Gardens
    Fourth Week: Mushroom House and Its Garden

  • July 2008
    First Week: Knit On Wednesday; Bat Pups UPDATED
    Second Week: Carousel Farm Lavender; At Carousel Farm; Making a Lavender Bottle
    Third Week: My Banana Is In Bloom
    Perennial Plant Association in Philadelphia: Street Scapes; John Bartram and His Garden; A Center City Community Garden; Chanticleer; In the Wet at Chanticleer; Have a Seat at Chanticleer; PPA Media Award; Conard-Pyle's Perennial Plants; Longwood Gardens in the Rain; Water Plants at Longwood Gardens; Mystical, Magical Bus Tour; Handmade Gardens; WynEden; Frog Hollow; Mt. Cuba; Echinacea Trials at Mt. Cuba; North Creek Nurseries; Meadowbrook Farm; Twin Silo Farm; Mill Fleurs; Linden Hill; Dinner at Linden Hill; Omnium Gatherum

  • June 2008
    First Week: Grounds for Sculpture: Pattern Play, Mannequins, Water; Watnong Soirée
    Second Week: In the Bamboo Jungle; A Bounty of Bulbs
    Third Week: Atlock: Plants, People, Pets, and More; Getting Potted: Options at Atlock; Elderflower Cordial; Solstice Festivities
    Fourth Week: Locavore: At the Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; Locavore: At Nagy's Orchard

  • May 2008
    First Week: Hooters; Down South; Wisteria at Van Vleck; At Van Vleck
    Second Week: Darwin's Garden, Revisited; The New York Botanical Garden, Redux; Die Fledermaus
    Third Week: Getting Potted; Moore in America: Monumental Sculpture at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: A Rainbow of Iris [Sunny Iris; Iris Blues; Pretty in Pink; Iris Fancies; Siberian and Other Beardless Iris]

  • April 2008
    First Week: Daffodil Days
    Second Week: Another Visit to Buck Gardens; A Visit to Natirar; A Visit to Willowwood
    Fourth Week: Darwin's Garden; Tulip Time; Trees in Lavish Bloom; Plant Sale at Buck Gardens; Yet Another Visit to Buck Gardens; Rain, Lovely Rain; Leftovers for Lunch; Nettle Soup

  • March 2008
    First Week: Philadelphia Flower Show: Part One - Jazz It Up; Part Two - Del Valley Chapter NARGS; Part Three - Jacques Armand Bulb Company; Part Four - Horticulture Competitions; Part Five - Look and Learn; Part Six - Stuff For Sale; After the Rain; Springfest; Leonard J. Buck Gardens
    Second Week: After The Show Is Over
    Fourth Week: Bountiful Bouquets

  • February 2008
    Second Week: Flowers and Ice
    Third Week: New Jersey Flower and Garden Show; Lambing Season
    Fourth Week: It's Still Winter; Trash to Treasures

  • January 2008
    First Week: Corsage for Clerodendron; Wild Geese; House of Coffee; Houseplant How-To
    Second Week: A Change in the Weather; Who Needs a Mouse?
    Third Week: A Gathering of Grackles
    Fourth Week: Forcing Spring; Bought a Bouquet

  • December 2007
    First Week: Lights, Camera, Action; Gingerbread Wonderland
    Second Week: Winter Greens
    Fourth Week: Boxing Day at The Ship Inn

  • November 2007
    First Week: Winterizing the Greenhouse; Sunday Brunch; Kiku, Rejuvenated; Building the Garden Railroads
    Second Week: A Class On the Japanese-Inspired Garden; Systema Naturae
    Third Week: Tower Hill Botanic Garden; Honey Pot Hill Apple Farm
    Fourth Week: Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden; Gingerbread Adventure at the New York Botanical Garden; Autumn Afternoon at Wave Hill

  • October 2007
    First Week: Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Harvest Festival at Jockey Hollow; Lepidoptera Art
    Second Week: Pumpkins and Scarecrows; At the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
    Third Week: Viewed by the Camera
    Fourth Week: Potting Bulbs for Forcing; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden; Bulb Basics; The Frost Was On The Pumpkins

  • September 2007
    Second Week: When Will the First Frost Come? UPDATE; A Visit to Trauger's Farm Market; Outside to Indoors
    Third Week: Daisy, Daisy; Fashion in Bloom
    Fourth Week: Vendange at Alba Vineyard; A Visit to Meadowbrook Farm; Wave Hill in Autumn; Daisy, Daisy at Wave Hill; Kiku at the New York Botanical Garden

  • August 2007
    First Week: Tri-State Hosta Society Meeting in Connecticut
    Second Week: Luxuriously Planted Containers; Jersey Fresh
    Third Week: Berry, Berry; After the Storm; Summer Picnic in Parsippany; Prepare for the Flower Show
    Fourth Week: High Style Chrysanthemums; Shitakes / Silver Lining; A Week on North Carolina's Crystal Coast

  • July 2007
    First Week: Garden Party for Nadia; Blueberry Summer
    Second Week: Honey, Honeybees; Carousel Farm Lavender Fields Forever; Teenage Turtle; 3 Gardens + 1
    Third Week: Back at Carousel Farm for More Lavender; A Visit to Solebury Orchards
    Fourth Week: Haying: A Visit to the Tinicum Herb Barn

  • June 2007
    First Week: Long Tail Salamander; Assembly Line Plant Stands
    Third Week: Community Farmers Market at Dvoor Farm; Garden Party at Atlock Farm; Evening Soirée at Willowwood
    Fourth Week: Morning Light; Second Dvoor Farm Farmers Market; A Bus Tour to Wave Hill; Tuteurs at Wave Hill; Thoreau-Inspired Art at at Wave Hill; Water Barrels

  • May 2007
    Second Week: A Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Another Garden Near Baltimore, Maryland; Rutgers Gardens Spring Plant Sale
    Third Week: Consider the Leaf; Herbs for Sale; Black Vultures
    Fourth Week: A Hosta Garden in Pennsylvania; A Goody Box from Terra Nova; Turkey Strut; A Visit to Van Vleck; Presby Memorial Iris Garden

  • April 2007
    First Week: Shades of Green; Coping with Invasive Vines
    Second Week: A Sign of Spring
    Third Week: Spring? What Spring?
    Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Springtime; Art at Wave Hill: Emily Dickinson Rendered; The Auricula Theater at the New York Botanical Garden; Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

  • March 2007
    First Week: Charlotte, North Carolina: Orchids in the Greenhouse; Through the Garden Gate; Southern Spring Home and Garden Show; Palm Trees in Charlotte; Elizabeth Lawrence's Garden
    Second Week: Cloning a Pelargonium
    Third Week: It's Still Winter UPDATE; Preview of Spring; Once Upon A Time, Long Ago and In Another Country; Tree Shadow
    Fourth Week: Birthday Cake; Knit on Wednesday

  • February 2007
    First Week: Real Wood
    Third Week: Real Winter
    Fourth Week: Coming Up This Weekend; Recycled Into An Endangered Species

  • January 2007
    First Week: New Year's Day; Yeast
    Second Week: January's Flowers; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Awakening; Streptocarpella saxorum
    Third Week: Seasonal Weather; What Do You Call a Collection of Geese?; Yeast II: Rye Bread
    Fourth Week: Frost; Picking Lemons

  • December 2006
    First Week: Gingerbread; Atlock's Annual Holiday Open House; Pretty Pony; Kudos for Buried Treasures
    Second Week: The History of Gingerbread; A Wreath for the Kitchen; Christmas Cat; Gingerbread Adventure; Gingerbread, postscriptum
    Third Week: Morning Visitors; All In The Family - Gingerbread; Gingerbread, Redundant; Piebald Deer
    Fourth Week: Cozy Cat; Blooming, It's a Struggle; Rushing the Season

  • November 2006
    First Week: Bringing in the Sheaves; Winterizing the Outdoor Banana
    Second Week: It's Called "Fall" For a Reason; Watnong Chapter NARGS Annual / Luncheon Meeting; Buried Treasures
    Third Week: Planting Buried Treasures; Botany of a Fruitcake; On Track with the Garden Railroad
    Fourth Week: Turkeys on the Run; Treehouse; My New Book Is Here!

  • October 2006
    First Week: Buried Treasures: Down to the Wire; The Ents; Autumn at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum; A Day at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: A Picnic in the Park; Timber! UPDATE; Frost
    Third Week: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Hyacinths, UPDATE; Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Tulips: Spring Flowers in the Winter House: Daffodils; A Window Box of Bulbs
    Fourth Week: Wave Hill in Autumn; In BelleWood's Greenhouse

  • September 2006
    First Week: Another Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; And Another Visit to Wave Hill
    Second Week: The Sound of Dragons
    Third Week: Seattle Travels: Day One - A Seattle Sampler; Day Two - Ferry to Vashon; Day Three - Farmers Market; Day Three - Garden Visits; Day Four - Kitchen Ware; Day Five - A Garden on the Way to Bellingham; Day Six - Two Gardens in Bellingham; One Last Nursery in Seattle

  • August 2006
    Third Week: Art in the Garden: Chihuly at the New York Botanical Garden; Garden Improvement - Art at Wave Hill; What's Brewing at The Ship Inn
    Fourth Week: Garden Writers' Get-Together: Off to the Conference, and a Visit to the Trade Show; Stormy Weather; Keynote Address; Private Garden Tour in Chadds Ford; Conard-Pyle; A Wilmington Walking Tour; Dining and Dancing at Longwood Gardens; Story Tours / Garden Visits; Fête Champêtre at Chanticleer; Optional Post-Symposium Tour in the Lehigh Valley and Allentown Area; Plant Lovers Discovery Tour: Progressive Women in Horticulture

  • July 2006
    First Week: Puerto Rico: At the Hotel; Festival de las Flores; At the Botanic Garden; El Yunque; Piñones; Viejo San Juan; Vieques; Along the Boulevards and Back Alleys
    Second Week: Hydrangea Day; Flowers at Fordhook Farm
    Third Week: Trompet de Mort UPDATE
    Fourth Week: Summer, and Everything's Peachy

  • June 2006
    First Week: Buried Treasures Preview
    Second Week: Perennial Annuals; Hydrangeas, and Chemistry in the Garden; Two Garden Visits: First the Barads; Second at the Coutins; Oyster Mushrooms; Zoysia Problems UPDATE
    Third Week: Praying / Preying Mantis
    Fourth Week: Garden Writers Meeting; Pleasant Run Nursery

  • May 2006
    First Week: Gardeners at Work; Mare and Foal; Vole Control; Cactus Flowers; Plant Swap at the Silbersteins
    Second Week: Teacher, Teacher; Rutgers Gardens Plant Fair
    Third Week: Dryad's Saddle; A Meme of Gardening Books
    Fourth Week: Hortulus Farms; Memorial Day Parade

  • April 2006
    First Week: Shading the Greenhouse; The Longevity of Bulbs; Winter's Last Gasp
    Second Week: Lawn, Part I; Stink, Stank, Stunk; Lawn, Part II
    Third Week:Tulips and Tutu; A Conservatory Show at the New York Botanical Garden
    Fourth Week: A Dainty Daffodil; Ruins; Falling Water; Tulips and Topiary; Topiary Update; Garden in the Woods; The Hunt House Inn; Dogtooth Violets

  • March 2006
    First Week: Return to Wave Hill, Again; Return to Wave Hill - Alpine House; Return to Wave Hill - South African Bulbs in Bloom; Iris danfordiae; At the Philadelphia Flower Show; Another Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
    Second Week: Water, Watering; Spring is Sprung; The Thrill of Victory
    Third Week: The Day Before Spring; Kinsman Company
    Fourth Week: Greenhouse Bulbs in Bloom

  • February 2006
    First Week: An Offer Too Good to Refuse!; Mini-Preview for the Bulb Exhibition
    Fourth Week: The Birds; Lambing Season

  • January 2006
    First Week: New Year's Day; Coping with Winter
    Second Week: Wave Hill in Winter; Banana in My Bedroom; Mist Asleep
    Fourth Week: Return to Wave Hill; Return to Wave Hill: Behind the Scenes in the Conservatory; Return to Wave Hill: In the Conservatory; Look What I Found! Update

  • December 2005
    First Week: Pastured Chickens; Atlock Flower Farm's Holiday Open House
    Second Week: Redouté's Flowers
    Third Week: Winter's Solstice; Cozy Kitty; A Flower for Year's End

  • November 2005
    What's in Bloom in November
    First Week: Momijigari; Willowwood and Autumn Colors; Willowwood and Autumn Berries
    Third Week: Ginkgo
    Fourth Week: Clusius Garden; The New York Botanical Garden's Holiday Train Show

  • October 2005
    What's in Bloom in October
    First Week: Photo Shoot; A Japanese Woodlander; A Bulb Potting Workshop (image update)
    Second Week: Weather, and Another Bulb Potting Workshop
    Third Week: Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part One; Horticulture Magazine Lecture Tour: Part Two; There Are Fairies in the Garden
    Fourth Week: An Enormous Puffball; Autumn Harvest; Grass, or Not Grass?; Autumn Crocus

  • September 2005
    What's in Bloom in September
    First Week:St. Fiacre; Firewood for Winter; It's a Jungle Out There
    Second Week: Focus on Mexico; Hunter / Killer Insect; Little Frog
    Third Week: Garden Party; Annual Extravaganza; Shell Beans
    Fourth Week: Eastern Performance Trials - Fashion in Bloom; Bananas on the Move

  • August 2005
    What's in Bloom in August
    First Week: Make Sure You Read the Label; A Visit to the New York Botanical Garden; Waterlilies at the New York Botanical Garden
    Second Week: Rain; A Day in a Tropical Garden
    Third Week: Night Blooming Cereus; Companionship; Magic Lilies
    Fourth Week: Garden Club's Garden Visit; A Day in the Garden; Another Day in the Garden

  • July 2005
    What's in Bloom in July
    First Week: The Glorious Fourth; Pollia japonica; Arisaema fargesii
    Second Week: Rain Lilies; Beetles and Bugs - August Update
    Third Week: Entomophilus; Chanterelles Are Back! - August Update; Made for the Shade; Lilies in Bloom; Summer Fruit; Hazy, Crazy, Lazy Days of Summer
    Fourth Week: Darkest Heart of Africa; Summer Means It's Time for Corn; Here Comes the Sun(Flowers); PANTS; Flutterby; The 41st Annual Rutgers Gardens Open House

  • June 2005
    What's in Bloom in June
    First Week: Weeds; Book Signing; Both Hands Weeding; How Many Books?; Bananas on the Move; Heirloom Tomatoes - August Update; Hazy, Hot, and Humid
    Second Week: Cup Plant; A Visit to Well-Sweep Herb Farm; Rain and the Garden(er); Cannas in the Garden; Omnium Gatherum; Bog Plants
    Third Week: A Visit to Wave Hill; A Garden Club Starts to Sprout; The Tropical Look; A Visit to Atlock Farm; More Omnium Gatherum
    Fourth Week: Wave Hill Revisited; Arisaema and Other Aroids; A Haul of Hosta; Into the Woods, Out with the Weeds

  • May 2005
    The Sound of One Hand Weeding --- A Couple of Reviews for Bulbs for Garden Habitats

  • April 2005
    Artists in BelleWood Garden --- Bulbs for Garden Habitats, My Newest Book --- Heating Mat

  • March 2005
    Cover Girl --- Snow Cat --- Philadelphia Flower Show

  • December 2004
    Autumn Leaf Cleanup & Lawn Care --- Wintering Over Banana Plants --- Creating a Drainage Channel
  • November 2004
    Momijigari, Japanese Autumn Garden Exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden --- Firewood --- Fox
  • March 2004
    Weeding --- Snowdrops and Other Little Bulbs of Early Spring --- Windowbox of Bulbs
  • February 2004
    Spring IS On the Way
  • January 2004
    Wood Ashes and Compost
  • December 2003
    Consider the Leaf, My Newest Book --- Holiday Garden Railroad Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden --- Winter Foliage
  • Fall 2003
    Houseplants Return Indoors
  • August 2003
    Chanterelles --- Beyond Terracotta with Campagnia Planters
  • July 2003
    Weeds, Again --- BelleWood Gardening School --- Re-Tiring --- Penn Allied Nursery Trade Show
  • May 2003
    Daffodils --- Weeding --- Plant Swapping
  • March & April 2003
    Shade for the Greenhouse --- Daffodils --- Plants Along Magnolia Way
  • February 2003
    Winter Pruning --- What's Blooming in My Greenhouse --- Consider the Leaf
  • August 2002
    A Visit to Holland: the Floriade, Palais Het Loo, the Bulb District, and More --- Rain Barrels
  • May 2002
    Drought --- New Shrubs --- Rain Barrels --- Bulbs for Damp Sites --- Fake Bamboo Fence
  • February 2002
    The Garden Awakens
  • January 2002
    Decorating Holiday / Solstice Trees
  • November 2001
    Cyclamen Society
  • October 2001
    Proctecting the Garden Bananas
  • August 2001
    Plants for a Small Shady Border
  • July 2001
    Weeds, Seeds, and Bulbs
  • June 2001
    Creating Magnolia Way