Category: Garden Living

• PREPARING FOR WINTER, THINKING OF SPRING

  

  It’s inevitable, winter is coming. In one week the temperature dropped from nights in the 50’s to nights in the 20’s. This morning we woke up to our first snow. At this time last year, I hadn’t even harvested the last of my tomatoes and the first frost didn’t come until December 3rd, but this…

  Robinwood Garden

  November 17, 2022

  Garden Living, Gardening Tips

  autumn, fall gardening, flowers, gardenlife, mulch, native wildlife, nature, no dig garden, overwinter plants indoors, perennials in winter, planting bulbs in containers, pollinators, Seed Starting, winter garden preparation

• THE STORY OF ROBINWOOD GARDEN

  

  Four summers ago, my partner and I made our annual trip back to the home where he grew up. And like every summer before, I sat on the back stairs leading out to the yard, stared at the broad expanse of dry, cracked clay soil along the perimeter of the fence, and thought “someone should…

  Robinwood Garden

  November 15, 2022

  Garden Living

  asclepias incarnata, butterfly, butterfly weed, caterpillar, clay soil, coneflower, coreopsis, echinacea, gardenlife, lavender, milkweed, monarch, perennial plants, pollinator garden, starting a garden