Maureen Gilmer

Within every summer acorn lives a mighty oak eager to inhabit your yard! It’s easy to grow a whole forest of them from acorns collected now into fall from locally … Read more

This year I’ve moved to a new desert home! Biggest problem is soil that’s largely sand and lacks organic matter and is not bio-active so I need a POWERFUL amendment. … Read more

For many people, their greatest achievements come at the end of life when they have gained great wisdom and experience.  This too is so with agaves, those extraordinarily tough succulents … Read more

One of the great things about being in media is access.  This year it was a private tour of the best Dutch gardens featuring virtually every bulb known to man … Read more

Slight of hand is what makes magic acts so confounding.  Your eye is betrayed by tricks that seem to defy all we know about physics.  Yet they are so effective … Read more

Call it hardpan or caliche or adobe, but all these soils add up to is dense ground.  And water doesn’t penetrate any better than it seeps through a red clay … Read more