Meadow watch, end of June. I cannot believe how much the meadow changes in one quick month. The temperature has varied from over 30 degrees one morning, to under half of that the next. The nights were either impossibly hot or you needed a blanket. And the pollen, oh, the pollen.

Upstate NY Gardens and Gardeners. A Gardening Vacation in Ithaca. Pests, Plagues, and Varmints. Making Pesto and Cooking with Pesto. New House, New Gardens.

Resilient planting design for public urban spaces by Giacomo Guzzon. A pedestrian lingers in the generous herbaceous plantings between a bike park and the rail station. This rather simple planting is more easil.

Free Water if you want it. To those of you in more verdant zones, you may not know that the Northeast of the American continent is in a drought, severe in many places. While I was perusing social media today, I came across a plea from a gardener in Massachusetts seeking help for her drought stricken garden. She was asking for ideas on what other drought stricken gardeners were doing to get water to their gardens.

Scottish Castles with Gardens I - Dunrobin. Dunrobin Castle - former home to the Duke of Sutherland - and now a major tourist attraction. The main parterre at Dunrobin - viewed through the windows of the castle. The secondary parterre divided into sections, with a pyramid garden at the centre. View of the secondary parterre as you descend the terraces from Dunrobin Castle. Standing on the terraces above the secondary parterre, across the pyramid garden.

The ups and downs of the gardening world. A skipper butterfly inserting its proboscis into the flower slurping up nectar. Butterflies are flying everywhere in my yard, swooping, basking, and fluttering like graceful ballerinas in a ballet. Observing the butterflies visiting my flowers and trying to catch them with my camera is difficult at times, so I did some research about their habits to make it more likely to capture them in the lens of my camera. Gulf Fritillary basking on Zinnia.

I plan to see a lot of roadside on the way.

New Growth Garden at Pines School Pines School, located on the grounds. What Is Wrong with My Tomatoes? Like a lot of northern gardeners, my tomatoes were looking fantastic up until about a week ago. The plants were large, flowers and fruit plentiful and.