Winter shadows reveal quiet truths about grief, resilience, and hope. A gentle reflection on gardens, moonlight, and the healing companionship of light and shadow.

Hello, fellow lovers of all things green, Last week’s yellowing fiddle-leaf fig and mealybug dilemmas led me to yet another houseplant in distress. Blaine Rothauser, a remarkable photographer and naturalist whose artful images have graced many of our column chats, reached out ab

Hello, fellow lovers of all things green, After the story about the wisdom of Harvesting Rainwater & Snowmelt, I heard from Jennifer in Bangor, Pennsylvania. Her fiddlehead fig tree had developed yellowing leaves. How delightful it is when one question leads back to a familiar sto

This photo, entitled ‘Hope’, was used as a holiday greeting to cherished colleagues and clients this year. But when I took the photo, only a few weeks after my beloved brother Bill’s passing, I didn’t think of the scene as Hope. True, the beauty of the long sha