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There is snow on the ground in Brooklyn and it is wreath season. For the last couple of years I have made our own wreath, attaching the pret...

 Furry balloons? Green balloons, or hairy...? This graceful plant needs more respect. Its air-filled seed capsules will form until frost, sl...

The lablab beans are looking very good. Lablab purpureus , beautiful and edible.  And yesterday evening, after six, we were treated to fifte...

The moonflowers began opening in earnest the day Don died. The night of the day. But, in South African time, the morning after the night of ...

Very, very late summer and the tall things are bending in the breeze. The South African milkweed and the fennel are irresistible to pollinat...

Recently, I served this Pawpaw Spicebush Cake - coffee-cake style, with spicebush-pecan streusel - after a plant walk at the Queens Country ...

  Our evening suppers are now netted, which is normal for summer. Usually, it's for tiny flying insects (smaller than fruit flies, but w...

Have you ever made dirty rice? It's a delicious mess of rice made exciting with all sorts of bits and pieces. The Southern Creole dish l...

Summer flowers, wild and weedy, aromatic and opportunistic. Knapweed, Queen Anne's lace, white sweet clover and mugwort are feral filler...

  Standing on the terrace recently I snuffed the air and smelled an unmistakable and welcome scent. Lindens were in city-wide bloom. Some st...

It is all very green, where lately it had been brown. Lately is months ago. Lately was March and April, the tentative days of spring. But ti...

On Monday I bought pink peonies in tight bud. $15 for three stems. Around the corner they are $20, and fully blown. Walking an extra 10 minu...

Sometimes, dreams come true. A small whisper of an idea stayed with me as I booked a ticket to Cape Town for April. Maybe, maybe...maybe the...

The ramps on the tiny terrace have broken their long hibernation. They made flowers last year, in summer, long after their leaves had disapp...

New spring Plant Walks and Forage Picnics are ready. Find them and book your tickets via the link. Pictured above? Bloodroot, and ephemeral...

The Frenchman's birthday daffodils ablaze in the early afternoon sunlight, now bright through the skylight as that medium-size star clim...

The snowdrops always surprise me. There's a patch of them in the northern reaches of Prospect Park (furthest from our local, southern en...

Invasive, delicious, and it perseveres, nay, thrives!...in winter. Field garlic. Allium vineale . Right now relishing the snow. Tonight it w...

Seeing red. Well, deep orange? Amber? A rufous hue? This is the perfect stage, not in a renewed presidency, not in the world, but in the sho...

It's bee balm time again. I have grown Monarda fistulosa in pots but find that it is happier, in-ground. With a breeze and some grasses...