Garden Diary

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...

11-24-25 SHORT HILLS: The Japanese maples are still clinging to some leaves. Oaks and beeches are holding on to brown leaves, as they do for...

11-15-25 SHORT HILLS: The trees have been gradually shedding leaves and now most of the leaves are down. I don’t think there has been a fros...

11-9-25 VERMONT: I woke up early this morning, before the sun, and yet things seemed very bright. A glance outside showed me a November surp...

11-7-25 VERMONT: We’re back in VT, and it’s noticeably colder, down to 23° last night. The leaves are almost all down, the grass is still gr...

11-5-25: SHORT HILLS: Wow!! Election Day was yesterday, and we were very, very pleased with the results. If anyone is not aware, the Dems cl...