Bob and Lura Bieda of Easthampton have been bird-watching together for decades, but in the last year they have focused their binoculars on...
Give a child a box of crayons and a piece of paper, and ask for a flower, and you very likely will get a picture of a daisy.Daisies also hold...
One of my favorite gardening tasks of early summer is planting the two large round pots on the patio. I love to wander the aisles at Andrew’s...
It’s been a while since I wrote about New Yorkers’ fascination with tomato plants. As I have observed in past columns, tomato plants show up in the...
Springtime brings us many gifts in the garden, as perennials and bulbs break their dormancy and send tender green shoots forth from the earth. But...
Spring has arrived and was visible in near-full force to residents of Northampton and Florence out for some exercise on Wednesday morning. Yellow...
The old crabapple tree in the backyard was on its last leg and would need to be cut down. Or so we were told when we moved in. That was 17 years...
As I surveyed my garden this week, I noticed that my once-tidy patch of bee balm (Monarda) has taken over far too much real estate. What once were...