Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

What are those special ingredients that elevate a garden into a stylish and unforgettable space? What’s the best way to unleash your garden personality, and how can you create an outdoor place that’s uniquely your own? Just in time for another… [Continue Reading]

Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer Cultivating Garden Style with Rochelle Greayer

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

“Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd.” But forget about buying me “some peanuts and Cracker Jack,” as the 1908 Tin Pan Alley song by Jack Norworth and Albert von Tilzer recommends. I would much rather tour the new 5,000… [Continue Reading]

Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox Fenway Farms Scores Home Run for Red Sox

Creating a Cottage Garden

A proper cottage garden, explains Oxford Dictionary, is defined as "an informal garden stocked typically with colourful flowering plants." And that's the type of garden I've created at my home (Zone 6B/7), as you can see above. From self-seeding poppies… [Continue Reading]

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Five Reasons Why Kids Should Garden

One of my favorite childhood memories was running around the garden until dinner time, chasing after lightning bugs and catching tadpoles. Sadly, too many kids spend most of their summer time indoors, playing on video games or watching TV. This lack… [Continue Reading]

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Going Native – North Carolina Style

October 6, 2009

The North Carolina Botanical Garden in Chapel Hill knows plenty about going native. In fact, this 600-acre botanical garden is all about helping the public better understand and appreciate native plants. As you can see from the praying mantis above, the beneficial insects feel quite at home here too. The conservation garden is affiliated with […]

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A Tour of Montrose Gardens

September 30, 2009

Reaching Montrose Gardens in Hillsborough, North Carolina is a pleasant affair. The scenic road into these nationally-known gardens (now part of The Garden Conservancy) passes by charming cafés, elegant shops and art galleries, not to mention 19th century homes perched majestically on lush green lawns. The picturesque setting is what one would expect from such […]

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Harvest Time in the Garden

September 20, 2009

“In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil.” Rose G. Kingsley, The Autumn Garden, 1905 It’s harvest time, a time when many gardens are loaded with late-season vegetables and fruit ripening to perfection. So, it seemed the right time […]

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Inside an Innovative Idaho Garden

September 18, 2009

Step onto this shady and serene back porch, and you might think you’d landed in Italy. Not Idaho. A fountain bubbles in the background. ‘Niagara’ and ‘Suffolk’ red grapes hang from the pergula. Comfy chairs are scattered among green leafy plants, and the courtyard looks like it’s been there for generations. That level of detail […]

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Grocery Gardening — Or Where I’ve Been Lately

August 24, 2009

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability,” said renowned author and philosopher Sam Keen. But summer fun wasn’t the reason why Seasonal Wisdom has been so neglected recently. There’s a much better reason. The story started on Twitter, believe it or not. That’s where I was approached by social media maven Jean Ann Van Krevelen about […]

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Six Tomatoes for Cooking and Preserving

July 21, 2009

‘San Marzano’ paste tomatoes about to ripen. If you’re craving delicious homemade tomato sauces, pastes, salsas or ketchup — not to mention sun dried tomatoes — look no further than the paste tomatoes. Beefsteaks, grape and cherry tomato varieties taste delicious in salads and on sandwiches. But when it comes to cooking and preserving, the paste […]

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Respect Your Elders

June 30, 2009

It’s true that elder (Sambucus nigra; Sambucus canadensis) grows wild in moist places through much of the United States. But to call this plant “common” is just unfair. Few plants have generated as much respect as elder over the ages. In fact, once I learned about this plant, I was hooked and just had to […]

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A Poppy Palooza!

June 23, 2009
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Perhaps it was all those cool, rainy days we had this spring. Maybe it was the love we gave the soil before we started to plant. Whatever it was, we’ve had a fantastic burst of poppies in the garden in 2009. It all started when I threw some seeds of Shirley Single Blend poppies (Papaver […]

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Happy Summer Solstice

June 20, 2009
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Since pre-Christian times, the summer solstice has been celebrated with seasonal rituals of major importance. Here are six fun facts you might not know about the summer solstice:

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The Story Behind the White House Garden

June 17, 2009

The seeds of the newly built White House kitchen garden were sown long before the Obama family arrived in the nation’s capital last January. In fact, the idea started the year before at a much smaller white house in Maine on a cold February day. Not the best time for outdoor gardening, but definitely a […]

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