Composting: Good for Garden, Good for the Planet

by ryw | Apr 5, 2019 | Blog, Lawn & Garden, Lawn Care

Home composting is good for you and your family, your garden and the planet. It’s a simple task. All you need is common household and garden waste, air, a bit of heat, moisture and time for the organic materials to break down into a rich, loamy soil-like...

Wine and Roses

by ryw | Jun 19, 2018 | Blog, Garden, Lawn & Garden

June is the month of wine and roses. Look at their beauty. Inhale the fragrance. Watch the buds change from day to day. Cut some for the table. And open a nice bottle for you must have wine with roses. Roses are a very special hobby. There are old roses, new roses,...

The Joys of Building a Birdhouse

by ryw | Jun 12, 2018 | Blog, Lawn & Garden, Miscellaneous Lawn & Garden

Bird feeders are a great way to encourage quick backyard visits by local and transient birds, but a properly sized, built and installed birdhouse will ensure more permanent avian residents. Sure, you can buy birdhouses of all shapes and sizes online and have it...

Hardscape and Flower Fairies: Capturing the Eye and the Imagination

by ryw | Jan 26, 2015 | Blog, Lawn & Garden, Walls & Fences

In winter, architectural design and its hard shapes, of stone, or concrete, are the things that capture one’s eye. Evergreens surround them with the only color of winter. But when everything else is dead or sleeping, it is those hard shapes that define the design....

Lessons of Winter — Just Look and Learn

by ryw | Jan 15, 2015 | Blog, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

Look about you. Winter gives us information in unexpected ways. For instance, you can tell the temperature outside just by looking at the rhododendrons. At 32 degrees, they curl up. About like a cigar. If they curl even more tightly, like a cigarette, it’s about 20...

Delight in Autumn’s Harvest and the Colors of Fall

by ryw | Sep 29, 2014 | Blog, Lawn & Garden, Trees & Shrubs

Today I picked a pint of lovely raspberries. My fall crop. They never fail to fruit. Overhead my dogwood turned maroon. A friend brought a bag of her extra tomatoes. Every serious backyard gardener has too many squash and big cucumbers, which are given to neighbors....