“When yellow dives into the red the ripples are orange.”—Derek Jarman In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Nun’s Priest’s Tale of 1390 a fox was...

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”—Rachel Carson The visit...

“A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.”—Charles Baudelaire This past month of April I came across two facts that caught my...

"Narcissus triandrus alba, called angel’s tears, also lays its ears back… where it looks like a little ghost, weeping.” - Vita...

The dandelion’s pallid tube Astonishes the grass And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas — Emily Dickinson Envision a summer meadow...

“Strew thy green with flowers; the yellows, blues, the purple violets, and marigolds.”— William Shakespeare For over fifty years I have...

“Tis said, in summer’s evening hour Flashes the golden-colour’d flower. —Samuel Taylor Coleridge In 1762 Elizabeth, the nineteen year old...

“Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog, adder’s fork, and blind worm’s sting, lizard’s leg and owlet’s wing. For a...

“There will be days, most likely in November, when you question the desirability of having a garden at all.”—Elsa Bakalar Over the years...

“In-A-Gaddda-Da-Vida, baby” — Doug Ingle It’s the beginning of the botanical grande finale, a spectacle to help us forget that we are...

The plant genus Impatiens, with over one thousand species, gets its name from its impatient method of seed dispersal. When a mature seed...

“It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty,...