Garden Diary

2-25-22 SHORT HILLS: A couple days ago we had a warm, windy day. It was in the mid-sixties, so we went out to the Great Swamp Wildlife Refug...

2-20-22 SHORT HILLS: We have had couple storms with lots of wind that blew branches out of the trees. The first one dumped rain on us, and t...

2-13-22 SHORT HILLS: We left cold, frosty Vermont yesterday morning and came back to a warm and sunny NJ afternoon. While we were on the GSP...

2-10-22 VERMONT: It is very exciting here when the snow slides off the metal roofs. All it takes is a little warming, and a huge glob of sno...

2-6-22 VERMONT: We came up just after the latest big storm finished with the Northeast. All the roads were fine twelve hours after the last ...

2-2-22 SHORT HILLS: Well, we won’t see that date again anytime soon. There’s another storm on the way, getting the usual hype and hyperbole....

1-29-22 SHORT HILLS: We’re almost at the end of January. I decided that the problem with winter is that nothing happens in the gardens. In t...