Hello fellow readers, With the recent below-freezing temperatures, my garden ghost routine of covering pots with sheets to keep them from freezing has begun. Admittedly it’s silly as acceptance that the growing season is over will eventually set in; about when I grow weary of th

Hello fellow readers, Goldenrod’s bad reputation is hard to turn around! Sandy from Sparta questioned a recommendation to add Solidago to her fall garden.  The common name is Goldenrod, after all, and doesn’t it cause allergies? The actual offender is Ragweed (Ambrosia ) which g

“The Top of the World!” I adore Big Pocono State Park, atop Camelback ski mountain – I call the Top of the World. It was Father’s Day, the first time there, just as the mountain laurels were at the peak. There couldn’t be a better-planned landscape- fluffy soft