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The Honey Guide
It was during this week two years ago I took a summer stroll through the world-famous Missouri Botanical Gardens in St. Louis. As I wandered through the many sections and pathways, thousands of varieties of colorful flowers, trees, vines, ferns, waterlilies,…
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A Gully or a Furrow?
Every spring, some of the land around here is washed into deep gullies by sudden cloudbursts combined with our unstable, thin soil. Whether you call them gully-washers, frog-stranglers or trash-movers, these powerful deluges instantly fill time-worn ravines or create new ones.…
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A Plum-Tinged Hope
Down the slope a little way from the house, not far from the gravel driveway, two plum trees are loaded with fruit. Their branches are bending low with the bounty of dozens and dozens of red-violet beauties. The plums are slightly…
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The Plant Advisors
It started during my years living in Maine, when the presence of indoor plants in the house moved from an afterthought to a requirement. Those long months filled with vistas of white, the gardens buried deep in snow and ice, and…
