The world is awfully noisy—sirens, cars honking, even social media screaming look at me, look at me. No wonder people find retreat in our garden. It is not completely quiet; is any place in the city silent? But it is …
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The beech tree is down. For the last few years we have been watching as the tree declined, knowing one day it would have to be removed. That day has come and gone. Nothing is permanent in a …
Read More »Gardening season doesn’t really begin until THE Plant Sale at the Civic Garden Center, the first weekend in May. Maybe you started some seeds inside while it was snowing outside. Perhaps you planted peas on St. Patrick’s Day, or started …
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A week into Spring and the warnings of 8 inches of snow? For those of us who are itching to get into the garden and dig some dirt, this round of late winter/delayed Spring is a bit of a challenge. …
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Every year there is an effort to embody the Civic Garden Center’s message in its booth at the Home and Garden Show. The center started as a resource for local gardeners during World War II. Over the years, …
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What does the lawn represent to you? To many it is a word like yard or garden, that space in which we try to work the elements of nature into our own private ecosystem. To others, it is the expanse …
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Now that the blasted heat has broken and we’ve gotten the start of Fall rains, things have eased, haven’t they? Just yesterday, as I was walking down Vine Street after picking up some art supplies at Suders, I noticed people …
Read More »Anybody else getting tired of the phone calls asking for money for various political campaigns? Being in a swing state, and in a particularly swingish county, has ramped up the attention, hasn’t it? No matter what our individual political stripe …
Read More »Arboreally, or perhaps dendrologically, we appear to be at a historic cusp. Even as the impact of the emerald ash borer (EAB) is just barely becoming apparent (over the past 2 years, an overwhelming number of ash trees have been …
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Happy first day of summer!! What, you ask, have we been experiencing if it hasn’t been summer? I know, I know, hottest spring on record. This is now officially summer, so the temperatures are normal. Don’t you feel better? This …
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