Video: Late Season Garden Tasks

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When the weather gets colder in the fall, it’s easy to think the garden season is over and you can head indoors. Not so fast! In this week’s video, I take you along while I handle some important late season garden tasks. You’ll see me bringing delicate garden art and glass rain gauges indoors so they won’t break from the […]

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Column: Thwarting Birds

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I suppose the title to today’s post might shock you because you probably know I’m an avid birdwatcher. But I take issue when birds think it’s perfectly fine to take bites out of our cherries, raspberries, and blueberries. How can Bill and I thwart the birds but still be on a friendly basis with them? Well, that’s exactly what you’ll […]

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Book Review: Deer-Resistant Design

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Deer-Resistant Design by Karen Chapman (Timber Press, 2019, 240 pp., $24.95) It’s widely known that the most successful method for keeping deer out of the garden is a tall fence. But fences aren’t always an option, or even desirable. As a matter of fact, the subtitle for Karen Chapman’s newest book, Deer-Resistant Design, is certain to catch the eye of […]

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When Moose Come Calling

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Many of you probably saw a recent Facebook post of mine, in which I shared a photo of some beautiful delphiniums. The point of my post was to explain that delphiniums will rebloom if you deadhead the previous flower stalks as soon as they’ve finished blooming. Well, the next morning, I woke up to find that a moose had also […]

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