A carpet of petals from dying flowers Death in a garden is normal. Plants don’t overwinter well. Plants grow old and stop creating...

Monty Don calls any plant that isn’t where it should be a weed. Dandelions in the daffodil bed? Weed. Dandelions in the wildflower...

I am going to be an internationally renowned physicist, author, biologist, powerlifting champion, and gardener with a flair for airplane...

I want to talk to you for a moment about my two cats. Felix is about two years old. He is incredibly athletic, with an easy five-foot...

A few Daffodils... Just as the end of the gardening year is a good time to take stock, so too is the beginning of the gardening year. For...

If you planted a garden in a day, you wouldn’t know if you were successful for a year or more. If you wrote a novel today, and it was the...

Plants sleep, after a fashion. The sun sits too low in the sky, the ground grows hard and cold, and snow blankets bare twigs that...

Courage is a decision.

I want to talk to you today about an exceptional man. I don’t know him; I don’t know how much truth there is behind his words or how much...

Everything that we take for granted today was someone else’s dream yesterday. Plumbing. Electricity. Internet. Cars. Lattes. Indoor...

It is an unfortunate truth that, very often, we are the worst to the people who love us best. Our boss at work is rude or condescending;...

There is something convenient about the pace of gardening. There is always work to do, but most of it is rarely urgent. Sure, there are...

Work is getting to me. I feel unappreciated and irrelevant. My friends don’t seem to particularly care about any of my thoughts, my...

Gardening can teach us what is within and beyond our control. You can water during a drought, dig trenches in a deluge, and cut away the...

I have said in the past that I don’t believe in "New Year’s resolutions." They are forced and timed in a way that sets most of us up for failure. But in the garden, there is a different, though similar, task that happens every year: Taking stock. You see, a garden doesn’t lie to you. It can’t. It doesn’t care about your feelings; it doesn’t care whether you think something worked or not. When a plant dies, the garden is telling you something didn’t work. When a plant thrives,

Life life like a garden you get to tend once

I want to introduce a new series on this site, which will be about your metaphorical garden and my literal one. Sort of. I don’t mean I...

You have exercised every day for a month, but you barely lose one pound. You lift every day for three months and can barely add a pound...

How much negativity in your feedback can you stand? 10%... 20%? 90%? Every writer needs negative criticism. We need to be told no. We...

Do you want to reduce stress levels, lower heart rate, and ease tension in the muscles? Usually, this kind of claim is a start toa bad...