The Bradford Era

As we put the vegetable garden to bed for the winter, we need to take time to plan for next season. We all dream of that perfect vegetable garden star...

Our seemingly endless summer is still with us. We are enjoying our outdoor summertime spaces day after day and evening after evening. I am still havin...

These last wonderful summer-like days are now dwindling quickly. Although I have been watering my containers they are now at the stage where our beaut...

September is the most beautiful month of fall and the best month for all those garden tasks. Everything you accomplish now will give you a head start ...

September is a wonderful month. One week we welcome autumn, the next week we have the return of summer. In between we are all hoping for a nice quiet ...

It is said that hydrangeas bloom with courage and confidence, encouraging the gardener to blossom into one’s best self while also teaching the power o...

August is a special month. The pressure is off and it’s time to enjoy the late-season garden. We still have to weed, trim, and water but we can also p...

“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow,” said Francis Hodgson Burnett.  For rosarians, nothing matches the beauty and the history of th...

July is the month of the garden. Our annuals have settled nicely into their containers. With fertilizer, regular watering and deadheading they are rea...