Persephone with her pomegranate. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874) - Tate Gallery, London This season's sols...

This is an updated version of a recipe I published 3 years ago . This version reflects the adjustments I've made since then. I feel like...

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; - Juliet, Romeo and Juliet , Wiliam Shakespeare ...

New York State Gardeners : You can help re-introduce our state insect! See Links below. A decade ago , shortly after I launched this blog...

2022-10-20 : Please refer to the new, updated list . I started to reply to a Facebook post and quickly realized I had enough content for a ...

10 years ago today, I wrote the first post of Flatbush Gardener , a reflection on my first garden in NYC, started in 1981 in the East Villa...

The Gardener's Nook this weekend 10 years ago, on May 16, 2006, I wrote the first post for this blog . To celebrate my 10th Blogiversa...

2016-04-12 : Added the LINPI Plant Sale dates. Seasonal sales are one of the best ways to acquire a wide variety of native plants. It'...

I moved to NYC the first weekend of 1979. By Spring, I had moved to the East Village, an epicenter of what was first called "gay cancer...

These cookies have been taste-tested recently at a going-away party and after-church coffee hour. Adults rave about this cookie. You will ...