What a cold Spring day it is today here in northern NJ, but that isn’t stopping the high tree pollen count as the trees begin to bud, and the growth of my tulips, daffodils, grape hyacinths, crocuses and other assorted spring bulbs. Many of my perennial herbs are coming up as well.Today I want to [...]
What a winter it has been, but the sun is shining brightly today, in fact it’s just at the right spot to be shining down on me through the skylight as I sit here on the couch with my laptop, and it feels delightful. We have had a long, cold winter, one of those winters [...]
Michelle Obama is going to be planting a garden at the White House, and from what I hear, it is going to be a garden with vegetables, herbs, and perhaps some fruit. The garden will be near the fountain on the south lawn, and children from a local DC school will join her to break [...]
Over the past couple of years, our town has formed a sustainable gardening group, and have taken a plot of unused land in our Township, and turned it into something useful and beautiful. There is also a beautiful “island” of flowers in the middle of the traffic light interchange in the middle of our town [...]
What beautiful yellow flowers for an herb that sounds like it is a blemish on Saint Actually, the word is “wort”, not “wart”, which is an old English word that means root or plant. It is named after St. John the Baptist of the Bible. The botanical name for the plant we are focusing on [...]
