Garden Diary

4-26-26 SHORT HILLS: We’re back in NJ. I have said before that going back and forth between NJ and VT in spring is like time travel. We went...

4-20-26 VERMONT: Yesterday we had rain, probably a half inch, by mid-day, it turned to snow and continued for several hours. The temperatur...

4-18-26 VERMONT: We came north yesterday through a T-storm in Mass. It’s almost as warm here as it was in NJ. Spring is quite advanced here ...

4-15-26 SHORT HILLS: Now it’s July, but the end of the week looks like March. However nothing stops the parade.  I saw a brown-headed cowb...

4-9-26 SHORT HILLS: April is being April. After warm days, we had freezing temps the last two nights. It got up to about 50° during the day....

4-2-26 SHORT HILLS: Today is cold and rainy, yesterday was warm and sunny. I was outside doing more pruning, trimming and snipping.  Yesterd...

3-28-26 SHORT HILLS: Hot, cold, hot, cold, hot, cold. Yesterday I was outside doing some more clean up, removing dead fall from bushes and s...