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WINTER reveals the bones one might even say the skeleton -- of the garden. Snow defines a clipped hedge or paths meeting on an axis. There are no leaves to [...]

RICK DARKE, a gardener who can bring landscapes to life with his words and photographs, spent 20 years observing a particular section of a woodland stream, called Red Clay Creek, [...]

TWO years ago, I planted a generous clump of Prinses Irene tulips in the old barnyard, which I am slowly turning into a walled garden at our family farm. They [...]

WHEN Kurt Bluemel arrived in the United States more than 40 years ago, most gardeners thought grass was just another word for lawn. Fresh from working among the 6,000 different [...]

A SHIPMENT of 1,050 Japanese tree peonies, offered as a gift of healing to New York after Sept. 11, is sitting on the dock at Long Beach, Calif., because of [...]

I HADN'T been back to Fordhook Farm, the ancestral home of the W. Atlee Burpee family, since the summer of 1992, when I fell in love with a zucchini called [...]

I FELL under the spell of the water lotus two weeks ago, on a visit to Chanticleer, a lavish public garden in Wayne, Pa., west of Philadelphia. I could see [...]

LASAGNA gardening has nothing to do with pasta, cheese and tomato sauce. It does have to do with layers, though. ''Essentially, it's growing things right out of your compost pile,'' [...]

NEW YORKERS and other city people may be used to seeing tomatoes and peppers in big pots on the roof, but what about a little farm growing right out of [...]

IT had to happen on the Upper West Side: drought-tolerant wedding bouquets. ''I was out front watering our plants and people would walk by and yell at me for wasting [...]

FOR more than 40 years, Ione and Emmott Chase have been building a garden on a plateau here near Seattle that sweeps out of a forest of great Douglas firs, [...]

ESTATE gardens can be a yawn: acres of lawn rolling down from an English-style mansion, garden ''rooms'' rolling out from the south side of the house. And somewhere, a walled [...]

I WAS bitten by the rosemary bug a few weeks ago at DeBaggio Herbs. It was a chilly day in Chantilly, Va., with mist so heavy it wanted to be [...]

JOHN F. REED is the kind of librarian who wants you to pore over every one of the 4,700 rare books and folios in the newly renovated LuEsther T. Mertz [...]

WITH drought restrictions already imposed in New York, New Jersey and other states, compost is emerging as the hero of water conservation. ''Compost is the key to what were doing [...]

I HAVE decided to face the specter of drought on the Eastern Seaboard this spring and summer with a spirit of inquiry and resolve. Two years ago, when the drought [...]

''I'M a melon maniac with a mission,'' Amy Goldman said last week. The former psychologist-turned gardener grows about 100 varieties of the ancient gourd on a one-acre sunny plot on [...]

IN its gravy days of the 1950's, the McKee Jungle Gardens was hailed as one of the botanical wonders of the world -- with 2,000 species of native and exotic [...]

I DO a lot of catalog dreaming online these days, which isn't as cozy as curling up with the real thing, but surfing from black kale to rare fruit trees [...]

HERE'S the good news: The unseasonably warm weather that has lingered over the East Coast and north central United States has triggered a whole new crop of tender arugula, tiny [...]

I FINISHED Gary Paul Nabhan's new book, ''Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods,'' at the kitchen table in between making Thanksgiving dinner: basting the pork [...]

I HAVE never really liked chrysanthemums. Maybe it was all those wrist corsages in high school, where my date and I always wanted to be with someone else. Or those [...]

A LIGHT frost has turned most of my vegetable garden to brown vines, but the collards and mustard greens love the cool weather. It's satisfying work, pulling up the old [...]

IT isn't exactly clear when a prairie began to grow on the sunny edges of the quarter-acre lot that surrounds Katy Stein and Jay Merrill's contemporary house, which stands at [...]

AS I get older, I am more and more interested in the bones of a garden: the paths and walls, the little low hedges of boxwood outlining an herb garden [...]

I CELEBRATED the autumnal equinox with friends who have an old log house overlooking a pond. Elizabeth had picked slender pods of okra from her garden, and made a spicy [...]

IT'S almost scary how I find myself liking a plant I scorned only a few years ago. ''How do you explain the return of the dreaded coleus?'' I wrote in [...]

I HAVE been battling a mysterious weed for more than 10 years now. It first showed up in my garden in St. James on Long Island when it crept up [...]