There are different types of gardening disappointments. The gradual fading of a plant that never quite took, not the late […]

There is a particular area at the edge of most gardens that never quite works, where the vegetables are thin

A dead oak stands at the far end of a rural Connecticut garden, its upper branches bare against the sky

Everyone who has ever worked in a garden with a child will recognize this moment. Child who has spent weeks

Seeing a neighbor load black bin bags with fall foliage, carry them to the curb, and then drive to the

In the walled kitchen garden of Château de Villandry, somewhere in the Loire Valley, a gardener is achieving something that

When you stand at the entrance to Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent on a gloomy November morning, the borders are

French marigolds, with their almost garish orange flowers set against dark green foliage, are nestled among rows of tomatoes in

A person stands in a garden center every spring with a bag of seed potatoes in one hand and a

A certain type of gardener disappears for two weeks every August, returns to find their patch baked by an unrelenting