Garden Diary

1-20-26 SHORT HILLS: “…the earth stood like iron, water like a stone, snow had fallen, snow on snow…” That’s from the hymn ‘In the Bleak Mi...

1-10-26 SHORT HILLS: We had some snow cover here in NJ, but a few warm days with rain have washed it all away except for the remnants of the...

1-1-26 SHORT HILLS: I realize that it’s been almost two weeks with no post. No post about Xmas, the Party, the weather, the guests, the dogs...

12-20-25 VERMONT: In typical New England fashion, it warmed up, into the fifties, rained at least an inch, which washed away a lot of the sn...

12-17-25 VERMONT: We came up a few days ago. It is C-O-L-D here. The temps have been below freezing for more than a week. There is maybe a f...

12-9-25 SHORT HILLS: It’s been cold, unusually cold, with actual temps at night in the teens. Vermont is even colder. We are headed there th...

12-3-25 SHORT HILLS: We have now had a hard frost, with a harder one to come tomorrow or tomorrow night. I was filling the bird feeder Monda...