Around The Garden

Just chill a minute. I still believe in weekends and I still believe that one day can seem different than the next and I don’t mean to invade your weekend privacy.  I am offering you this garden lesson on a Saturday morning because: 1) it failed to download properly yesterday, so I wasn’t able to…

Today I tackle a little plant puzzle that has perplexed me for years.  Why do some plants, particularly many landscape shrubs, throw up a set of red leaves in spring, which permanently change to green by summer?  The answer in a word: protection!  The mechanism in a word: anthocyanins! As always, I encourage your children…

I am really grateful that Lisa Tran-Shepherd happened to be around yesterday with her mom and that she was willing to help me produce our first video.  It’s about making homes for mason bees.  Today I will make another one with basic information about mason bees, like why you would want them around in the…

Today the mason bee chronicles continue with some amazing footage of the little masons themselves coming and going in yesterday’s late afternoon warmth.  You won’t want to miss one bit of this series, all available here on this exclusive FMES channel for the low, low price of…..your tuition!   Hope you enjoy it and hope…

In this latest Garden Video episode, Marc goes out into the garden, right in the midst of a plumb tree in full blossom, and looks at what is flying up to the flowers.  Not finding as many things as he hopes, he resorts to some storytelling from his childhood.

I got so excited about tubers after yesterday’s video about potatoes that I just had to make another on the same topic, even though I promised today’s content would focus on transplanting.  Oh, well, that will be for tomorrow.