Gatsbys Gardens

It is difficult to believe how much our blooming cycle has been thrown off by the unusual March weather. I have never had a rose bloom in ...

It is probably my fifth time going through Piet Oudolf's book Designing With Plants , and each time I find the philosophy overwhelming b...

We are definitely back to a more normal springtime, cool nights even frost warnings and daytime temperatures in the fifties.  I covered my c...

I asked myself this question as I drove to meet a group of fellow gardeners.  We all volunteer for the University of Illinois Extension Serv...

As I walked through the garden, I finally realized how much layering for succession blooming I have done in the past few years.  Interplanti...