Spring is Here!

Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Spring is Here! Spring is here. The weather, the flowers, the birds, and above all, the itchy feeling in the palms of gardeners’ hands tells us so, regardless of the date of the equinox or last frost. This winter’s persistent rain has...

Cankerworm Update

Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Cankerworm Update My friends in the various gardening circuits in which I orbit have all been asking the same question: What happened to the cankerworms? I observed almost no adult moths in my Tanglefoot® bands this year. Nor did I see or...

Rain Gardens

Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Rain Gardens Rain is a free but fickle gift to the garden. It falls when it will and in unforeseeable quantities. Too much rain creates damaging runoff; too little rainfall may destroy a garden. The rain garden addresses these problems by...

Go Plant a Tree

Search for: GREEN AND GROWING Go Plant a Tree We’ve sprung forward into spring and daylight savings time.  Now, it’s tree savings time—the second-best time of the year to plant trees (late fall is best). We may think we know how to plant a container grown tree, but...