The Chicago Reader wrote and recorded a small video on our garden. Check it out! How a Chicago master gardener transformed her yard from bleak …
Our Garden in The Chicago Reader
2015
Ideas for Dappled Shade
As the trees in my yard get older, they create more shade. Being fair skinned and having an old dog, we both appreciate the shade …
Broken Flowers
We have all done it from time to time. Walked into a flower bed and snapped off a plant. Driven home with a bounty of …
Smoke
I hope you all made it though the weekend of fireworks and BBQs in one piece. The evening of the Fourth, there was so much …
Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Brooklyn early in June, I was so excited about Green Ave. Luckily, my friend, Allison, lives and works (Bedford Hill Coffee Shop is her …
Time for Roses
I happened to be at Brooklyn Botanic Garden for peak rose bloom! It was quite a sight and smelled wonderful. People thoroughly enjoyed them. I …
Eating from the Garden
After being away on a road trip through West Virgina, up to New York, and back through Pennsylvania, I forgot how amazing eating from the …
Rows verses Inter-planting
When my boyfriend, Pete, came back from extensive touring through Europe, he remarked on how he really liked the vegetable gardens in nice neat rows. …
Aquilegia, Columbine
Columbine has a light, airy flower shaped like a comet or a star burst. Such a whimsical nature is fitting for this short lived woodland …
Make a Garden a Refuge
It seems that bees are still in trouble, the monarchs are diminishing in number, and California is out of water. The news can be so …