Michigan Garden Muse

What is a garden? It could be acres of tailored woods and meadows, pathways, ponds, topiary and pergolas. It could be a tapestry of wildflow...

The bulbs put into the ground for the fall planting season over the last couple weeks: dark purple Dutch iris; windflower anemones; double-b...

This year the foundation border under the front living room windows flagged around mid-summer, taking on a peaked and slightly famished appe...

Water, water, water. So has read the garden duty roster over the past few rainless weeks, thereby countermanding one of the core tenets of m...

In ancient China, where the earliest known chrysanthemums (called Chu) were cultivated as a flowering herb as far back in the mists of time ...

Two tomatoes, four radishes. Therein is the sum total of fresh produce yielded to date by the small vegetable patch put in this summer. The ...

It is only the middle of August and it's already begun. Truthfully, it goes on all year except when the garden is under snow, but August...

This is the summer of the large, completely smitten crush on daylillies. While always appreciated as reliable, hard-working border dwellers,...

July is the month when a legal guardian or conservator really ought to accompany me on trips to the garden nursery, ostensibly to restock co...

One spring day walking home and, as I approached the house, contemplating and critiquing the front garden as I am wont to do whenever it is ...

When heavy-muscled storm clouds envelop the blue skies, and rain falls in foggy mists and sweeping showers for several days running, it is a...

One of the more challenging things to do in the garden this summer is to repose at complete ease in the Adirondack chair or on one of the ru...