As promised, the best of the best, and worst of the worst seed-grown vegetable list from 2009. Now remember, to some extent these ratings are subjective, and dependent on climate; when choosing varieties, you must always select cultivars that are adapted to your site and growing conditions. Take for instance, that all time American favorite [...]
When well located, walks and drives convey the idea of habitable-ness, imparting an air of welcome and freedom to a home and grounds, and in no slight degree seem to promote the beauty of the place. The most important walks and drives are those at the entrance…. Architects ask that a house be thus seen [...]
As a percentage of housing stock in the US and Canada, Victorian homes come in second only to modern construction. So this leads to the question, what kind of landscape is appropriate for Victorian homes? Or perhaps, even more fundamentally, what makes a garden “Victorian” in the first place? Perhaps the most distinguishing element of [...]
Large or small, [a garden] should look both orderly and rich. It should be well fenced from the outside world. It should by no means imitate either the willfulness or the wildness of nature, but it should look like a thing never to seen except near a house. It should, in fact, look like part [...]
This blog owes its genesis to to unrelated events. The first is a I call I received the other day, asking once again: “Michael, why aren’t you publishing your magazine, Traditional Gardening® anymore?” The second is a small dinner party I gave recently, in which I was regaling my guests with the adventures, or rather [...]