My Virtual Maryland Garden

While walking Biscuit the other day, I ran into one of my dog-walking gardening friends. I think of her as a friend because although I know ...

An unexpectedly heavy snowfall yesterday has buried the garden. I was careful to cover the cold frames the day before. The low tonight is pr...

Back in mid-December the first of the hoop-petticoat daffodils began to bloom (and were quickly mutilated by snails). Those flowers came fro...

The mild weather has had me snooping around in the cold frames this week. I opened the cold frame which contains hundreds of pots of seed so...

Several of my gardening friends and I have for years shared the pursuit of a sort of holy grail: a Christmas rose which really does bloom a...

Many gardeners know about fall and “spring” (really winter) blooming crocuses. Crocus collectors know that it’s possible (with the help of c...

I’m sick of shivering and looking at snow. I’ ve had enough of winter; I want summer. But winter is not all bad; if nothing else, it forces...

The heavy snow which fell in late December is by now only evident in the shadier parts of the garden. For a week and a half the garden was b...

Well, they do look a bit like the exposed tails of pangolins which have snuggled themselves behind the rock. They also look like some partic...

While working in the kitchen this morning, a flash of color just outside the big glass doors caught my attention. Something avian, relativel...

Gardening can be dangerous, often in ways which are utterly unanticipated. Modern power tools can be limb or even life threatening in the ha...

The little plant shown here is a sedum native to the west coast of North America. You will usually find it offered as Sedum spathulifolium ...

It was cold last night; the temperature at 7:30 this morning was about 25 º F. These cold nights bring with them a new responsibility for me...

The nature of our winters here on the east coast is such that any plant which tries to bloom during the winter is up against huge odds. The ...

One other use for the cold frames is to get marginally hardy broad-leaf evergreens off to a good start. Newly rooted cuttings not yet suffic...

Last year my friend Hilda gave me a pot of newly rooted cuttings of Daphne odora . For her, this plant grows as if it were Forsythia . She h...

I quickly put together another cold frame today. This one is beside the existing protected cold frame. I put it there to take advantage of t...

The daffodil season continues here. The little white-flowered hoop petticoat daffodils are blooming. I’m not the only one enjoying them: as ...

I pity those born into cultures in which highly spiced foods prevail. Once one is accustomed to such foods, the rest of the world’s foods mu...

My bedtime reading for the last few nights, Helen Morgenthau Fox’s Gardening With Herbs from 1938, was prompted by a sudden recurrence in ...