Mother's Day is also for giraffes

Published May 11, 2018

"Dances with the Daffodils"

On a visit to the New York Botanical Garden a couple weeks ago, I managed to hit the peak of daffodil bloom. […]

Published May 3, 2016

I am named for my father’s sister, Ruth Happel Smiley, who for most of her life worked on the gardens at Mohonk […]

Published October 25, 2015

I am back home and chasing fall. October is the peak of color somewhere every day in the southern Appalachian mountains, and […]

Published October 13, 2015

A native of Asia, Euonymus alatus was introduced as a garden plant around 1860 to the U.S. One of the main reasons […]