If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.

We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.

The very best garden is a new one, on virgin ground. Plants leap out of that spot.

When many plants are out of the picture in winter, it becomes clear that many of them should be pitched out. It's also much easier to do that before they come up and begin to talk to us.

You can put a gardener behind the wheel, but you can't keep her eyes off the landscape.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

A colorful handle on a tool does nothing for me. Once it drops into that jungle out there, unless it's absolutely huge, it's gone until fall.