Michigan Garden Muse

Maybe to an observer it looks like a lovely dalliance to collect baskets of fat, ripe tomatoes or snip bouquets of pastel blushing roses, bu...

In the early 1950s, a young German biodynamic farmer/researcher named Maria Thun decided to investigate the legendary belief present in many...

The best, most distinct, most numerous memories of childhood often involve gardens, trees, waterscapes and other natural world phenomena. Fr...

As sub-freezing temperatures lay their cold paws across the landscape and veils of windborne snow course endlessly up hill and down dale, ...

City and town environments can be harsh, monochromatic, fairly lifeless places. When I lived in the city, my favorite aspects of the surroun...

The first 2009 plant catalogue,* from Bluestone Perennials, arrived in the mail, a most welcome sight in these deep winter days with its ja...

When will there be good news? In Michigan especially and in the whole of our beleaguered country, such hard times and daily bad, sad tidings...

A key appurtenance for sanely navigating the long, frozen winter here in the north country is the simple houseplant. The houseplant allows u...

Baby, it's cold outside. Temperatures dug in at the teens and twenties day upon day, the daytime high temperature as this is written pr...

At last, at last, a new administration has been elected to take the reins of government in Washington, and hope rises that Barack Obama wil...

Upon moving into a rental home some years ago, my young sons found themselves the gleeful lords of a 6-foot wide, dense thicket of shrubs an...

Fall and winter are not the gardener's favorite seasons. Nothing in the plant world grows in fall and winter except underground, out of ...