I couldn't do it. I couldn't get rid of the bearded irises.

December is a time of reckoning.

Dandelions are the scourge of the suburban lawn—or are they?

Come to think about it, what are those things coming out of the ground?

A soul-soothing look at a few garden bright spots.

Letting nature in by getting immersed in the immediate.

How to grow incredible camellias without even trying. At all.

Planting a completely whacked-out flower bed that defies common sense.

If you don't plant Leontodon, they will come anyway.

A timely gift of beautiful flowers put my larcenous impulses on hold.

Hellebores, you are woefully narcissistic and you can never get enough.

The clues: bare earth and unrequited mulch.

We needed a big dose of raw nature to restore our faith.

Friends warned that wisteria was a relative of extraterrestrial xenomorphs.

There are gardening tenets that are so basic you couldn’t possibly ignore them. But you do.

The toughest plant in the garden meets its match—Deb and a pair of clippers.

The Cersei of the front garden is a cunning, ruthless, and good-looking adversary.