Author: Ann Emanuels

Extending Summer Color into Fall About the time those of us who live on the coast are emerging from our morning-evening fog cycle and finally getting some reliably warm weather, our summer-blooming flowers are beginning to look tired.  Now that we can actually enjoy more time in our gardens and even some dinners outside, it…

Pruning to Restore the Secret Garden Fifteen years ago my husband and I purchased a little cottage on the mesa in Inverness. It came with a jungle of overgrown shrubs and trees. There were probably flowers once too, but ivy had smothered anything low-growing. Neighbors told us the garden had once been a showpiece with…