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September 11th, 2026 at 08:36am by Alex Miller

Garden Glimpses: Waning Summer, Waxing Fall

Frankly, August can be a bummer in the garden. The floral exuberance of high summer is past, and autumn’s bright colors aren’t yet on the horizon. For a more traditional gardener, August presents unique challenges in finding plant material that will offer bloom, without relying on expensive annuals that need to be replaced yearly.

But for yours truly, with 60-70% of the garden populated by native perennials, the situation isn’t quite so dire. It’s taken six years, but my vision of a native meadow with continual revolving bloom is finally taking shape.

February 15th, 2022 at 08:47am by Alex Miller

Garden Glimpses: Mid-Winter 2022

Winter can seem a very bleak period, but there’s beauty and wonder everywhere, if you know where to look for it. Last year we had a blizzard in late January, which dropped more than 30 inches on the property, and kept it snowbound until mid-March. In my youth, this used to be the natural state of things in my area, snow cover from Christmas to Easter, but climate change has made that a rarity. The year before there was no measurable snow accumulation the entire season, and this year, though we’re still running below average, we’ve managed to have a series of smaller snowfalls which, aided by bitter cold spells, have helped to keep the ground covered throughout January, if only by a few inches.