Intriguing properties, latest transactions, more on everything you need to know about buying real estate in the Berkshires, and our Self-Taught Gardener pining for pines. All in this week's real estate section. Enjoy!
Although pine trees have taken a back seat to spruces and firs as Christmas tree choices, for Lee Buttala, our Self-Taught Gardener, they are still the star performers of the winter season.
Gardening is in the process of evolving and being transformed into something that requires a level of care and nursing different from the highly manicured beds and borders.
Many vegetables become sweeter with cooler temperatures. So do some gardeners, like our author, in hopes that someone will keep him warm during the winter.
How can we help but be confused if the spring catalogs come out in the dead of winter and the autumn catalogs come out when we're just planting in spring? Do gardeners care?
The ability of the boneset plant to kill off its neighbors, except for a few intimates, makes me think this plant is descended from the infamous Italian Renaissance Borgia family.
