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NATURE’S TURN: Catbirds in residence — a drama

I looked to the compelling triangle: baby, mother, father.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Judicious pruning

Our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala gives good reasons to reconsider the age-old adage to prune after bloom.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Quietly overtaken

Good advice from our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala: Nature renews herself. So can we.

Welcome to Real Estate Friday!

Location, location, location. Terrific house. Victoria Ross Standring of Stone House Properties offers a lakefront beauty. Plus, virtual tours for your shopping convenience.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Love in the time of corona

At a time when connections count, our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala advises us to try Nature.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Into the wild

An upcoming lecture at the Berkshire Botanical Garden will show why our Self-Taught Gardener, Lee Buttala, so loves the spirit of the wild garden.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Christmas holly and the divided house

Are you worried that the political environment may ruin your chances for stress-free holiday celebrations? Our Self-Taught Gardener brings us a lesson in cooperation from the holly plant.

The Self-Taught Gardener: The third movement

Our self-taught gardener Lee Buttala feels that the landscape has a sense of movement like a musical composition, and the music of fall is perhaps the most dramatic of all.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Time travel

For our Self-Taught Gardener, plants are mnenomic devices, connecting him to past places and people and helping him take them into the future.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Hydrotherapy

Our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala discovers that sometimes the oddest of circumstances can remind us how a landscape can provide solace.

The Self-Taught Gardener: Rooftop dancing

At a roof party in downtown Chicago, our Self-Taught Gardener Lee Buttala discovers that, just like in the garden, there is room for us all to inhabit the same world and to dance to our own music.
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