The 2025 Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival
The 2025 Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival is happening soon! Ten days of open private gardens…over 100 this year. Special events Cape-wide. Learn, explore, create, and be entertained as we celebrate the summer gardens on Cape Cod. See all of the events, read...
A Postcard About Watering
Plants aren’t really refreshed by squirting water on their leaves on a hot day…you’re better off putting that water on their roots, not their leaves. In fact, unless they are new seedlings with small roots, you’re better off not hand-watering...
A Three Lysimachia Day
One of the pleasures of being involved with plants is getting to know them as a family. We learn about plants that are in the same genus, and how they are similar. It’s like getting to know your best friend’s siblings and cousins, or connecting with your...
A Postcard From Amazing Blooming Trees
This postcard arrives as the Kousa dogwoods on Cape Cod are amazing in 2025. It explains why we’re seeing such an incredible display this year, and why it might not be so prolific in 2026…
A Postcard From After The Rain
17 Year Cicadas on Cape Cod
Yes, they are here and on some parts of the Cape the Brood XIV is having the party of the summer. As the temperatures grow warmer they grow louder, and in some areas people complain about the din. Of course they’re loud! If you were only able to mate for a...
Kale and Rose Petal Pizza
One of the pleasures of growing vegetables is being able to cook the most flavorful food on earth. And if you can add flower petals to that dish, it’s an #instantelevation. At this time of year we are eating the last of the frozen vegetables from our freezer. I...
A Postcard From Tomatoes
If you could get a postcard from your tomatoes, this is what it might say… Many people still believe that blossom end rot on tomatoes is caused by a lack of calcium. It’s actually caused by stress to young tomato plants, and that is usually from uneven or...
A Postcard From Peonies
If your peonies routinely get botrytis mold in the spring, it’s likely that your weather is often cool and damp. In this case, you might want to spray the emerging foliage and buds with an organic fungicide every year as the plant grows. For an occasional...