“Annuals provide…a sense of accidental beauty, a lightening of the heart that comes because beauty is brief.”—Wayne Winterrowd Perennial...

The genus allium, or the onion family, consists of hundreds of species, some of which have been cultivated and eaten for thousands of years,

“We are all candidates for composting. So we cannot approach the compost heap without a feeling of connection.”—Stanley Kunitz Composting...

“April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.”—Vita Sackville-West The vernal equinox occurs in March, but April feels to...

“What is all this juice and all this joy?/ A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning.”—Gerard Manley Hopkins Some years in...

“Roses,” she thought sardonically, “All trash m’dear.” —Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway Saint Valentine’s Day is for many a day to present...

“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.” —William Shakespeare January is the depth of...

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” –John Steinbeck It was an odd year in the garden. A...

“For pottage and pudding and pies Our pumpkins and parsnips are common supplies, We have pumpkins at morning and pumpkins at noon, If it...

“Autumn in felted slippers shuffles on, muted yet fiery.”—Vita Sackville-West There is an overwhelming bittersweet beauty in fall; a...

“September…what a turnover, what a watershed of the year.”—Vita Sackville-West Goldenrod, blooming throughout our fields and along our...

“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.”—A.A. Milne In high summer, in New England, we are surrounded by wildflowers,...