Garden on the Edge

This blog is about gardening and nature, two subjects that are inherently intertwined. I live outside of Boston (on the edge of an urban area) and near the ocean (on the edge of the land) and my property abuts a city owned natural area (on the edge of nature) what better name? Zone: 6A

Friday, October 17, 2014

Turning Over the Veggie Garden.

We've had our first frost here at The Edge and it did a number on the tomato plants. They started to die back. The toma...

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Foliage Follow Up - October

Foliage in the October Garden is all about the changing colors, the berries, the seed heads and the loss of the gorgeous all over summer gre...

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2014

This might well be the last Garden Bloggers Bloom Day of 2014 that features outside plants. I better start fertilizing the Anthuriums so I...

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Sunday Science - the Virus you SHOULD be worried about

[For those of you who don't know I am a college biology professor and a total science nerd. I speak from knowledge, not a desire to...

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Rain, glorious rain!

The month of September was very dry here in New England. But with the change of month came a change in the weather. The first two days of O...

Friday, October 3, 2014

My favorite plant in the garden this week - "Aster" October Skies

It's October and right on schedule my Aster oblongifolium (or maybe Symphotrichum oblongifolium , depending on your source) 'October...

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Uh-oh

I've heard that B uddleia can be invasive. I've even seen it - in England they are growing everywhere along the rail ways, on top o...

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