Notes and Resources

The maples are at their peak color.   The frost that is forecast for this weekend may be the end of most of our maple’s leaves.   Fortunately, the oak trees …

During this past spring and summer I have spent a lot of time talking about “native” plants.   Native plants attract native wildlife, native plants are tolerant of our strange weather, …

Asters and Goldenrods everywhere!   I often think that it must be fall when the asters and goldenrods begin blooming.  Truthfully, many asters begin blooming in early August and some goldenrods …

This week there was an announcement from NASA that there is more lawn in the United States than irrigated corn.    Lawn is important to our way of life, we use …

Mr. Norcross, our founder, was enchanted by the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. During his life this precious habitat was open to extensive development for the military (Fort Dix and …

Last week I had an opportunity to visit the Pinelands National Reserve in New Jersey. This encompasses 1.1 million acres in southern New Jersey reaching from the coastline to about …

Welcome back to Invasive plants. If you are reading this, I must have struck a nerve in your garden last week. Identifying and removing invasive plants is important. They are …

I wrote about invasive species in Beauty or the Beast almost 2 months ago, but I am again thinking about invasive plants. This time they are not at all beautiful. …

This week I have noticed all the baby birds around the greenhouse. The Tree Swallow, Eastern Bluebird and Carolina Wren nested nearby and all the babies have fledged. The Eastern …

The garden is always full of surprises, but this has been one of those years where something new greets me almost every week. On the positive side, early this spring …