Terrible news. Until this announcement,  Agrilus planipennis , emerald ash borer, or EAB for short, had been found throughout New York sta...

Rockaway Beach Boulevard, between Beach 113th & 114th Streets, Rockaway Park, Queens, November 4, 2012 The storm surge flooded this bl...

[Transcribed from a 2017-09-16 Twitter thread and back-dated.] I originally wrote this as a linked group of posts on Twitter in respons...

NYC-Native Species Asarum canadense , wild ginger Fragaria virginiana , Virginia strawberry Geranium maculatum Geum rivale , p...

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...