Gardening Goals – How to be Realistic and Achievable for next year. How to Make Realistic and Achievable Gardening Goals for next year. Late-October – It has been a wet year so the garden is hanging on in ways that it probably wouldn’t in other drier years. There hasn’t (yet) been a freeze either, but … Read more
I spent a week in Barcelona this summer and now I have a new top five favorite European cities list. It now goes like this – Amsterdam, Paris, Venice, London, Barcelona. Rome fell (to number 6). I had no expectation to love it as I did. I’ve been to Spain a few other times before. But, … Read more
Tis the season to be planning your spring display (that is if you are in the northern hemisphere). I know this picture circulated the internet a lot earlier this spring, but now is really the time to think about bulbs if you want to create something really interesting….So we are recirculating. If you wait until … Read more
I love Mondays and the fresh starts that they bring each week. This morning, while I organize my notes and pictures from a weekend visit to the New York Gift Fair (in preparation for sharing later today) I hope you enjoy Studio’g’s newest contributor’s first post. Jen Sundeen is one my dearest friends and partners in … Read more
Yes, I am opening this week’s blog with a line from that famous 80’s hit by Men at Work. He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich. To follow-up on that song which you will now have stuck in your head throughout the day, let me introduce you to a fantastic evergreen, perennial plant … Read more
Whether you have visited the south of France or just seen pictures you know how seductive those mounded purple rows of lavender can be. But the pictures don’t even tell half the story, the scent of lavender in the air on a hot day in July is simply the essence of summer. I have a … Read more
One of the biggest challenges that I found with high latitude gardening is looking for bold-foliaged plants that can take mild summers and cooler nights. There are the usual suspects: canna, caladium, and bananas but each of these plants really are slow to get growing and need a lot of winter care inside of a … Read more
Like me, you are probably feeling a bit depressed at the thought of your garden’s painstakingly planted scenes deteriorating over the next months (as they do every autumn). Yes, of course, you can plant some spring-blooming bulbs, but you will have to wait a good six months (and endure a lot of awful weather) to see them! Please, don’t despair just yet. There are bulbs that bloom in the fall. Asters, … Read more
It seems like yesterday it was Memorial Day, and all of the summer residents to Maine were just rolling into town, and we were rolling out our summer annuals. When I look back at photographs taken early in the season, its amazing to see just how small all of these plants were in May. As … Read more
Last week, I happened my way into an exciting new project that I want to share (and ask for a little help with). It all started with the search for a Chinese goddess…(isn’t that a great way to start a story?) My good friend (and yoga instructor) who teaches at the Fruitlands Museum caught wind … Read more