A Mainer took refuge in her garden during COVID, then wrote about it

In the understated and evocatively written 'A Gardener at the End of the World,' Margot Anne Kelley muses on time, pandemics and plants.

Reducing the lawn, two bricks at a time

Columnist Tom Atwell is moving garden pathways this summer to make room for more garden and less lawn.

Better late than never to plant those vegetables and flowers

Although it's already mid-June, you can still plant both vegetables and flowers. 'Truth is planting time is anytime you find a plant – or maybe even a seed – that you want to plant.'

Some gardeners like to garden. Some just like the results

If you're in the second camp, these tips may nudge you toward the first.

Enjoy the lazy, hazy days of summer by planting perennial fruit and vegetables

Plant once, but harvest for years. More food, less effort.

Divide and conquer: Spring is a good time to divide perennials

Boothbay botanical garden gets a gift of irises

The late Currier McEwen of Harpswell hybridized dozens of Siberian irises. A collection of his irises will go on display at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Short on yard space? There are plenty of vegetables you can grow in pots

Tomatoes, potatoes and peppers are among them.

You can never plant enough peas

There are 3 basic types: sugar snaps, snow peas and shelling peas. Fresh from the garden, all peas are peerless (though garden asparagus gives them a run for their money).

When a neighbor took down several big pine trees, the sunshine poured in

Things will be different in the Atwell's vegetable garden this year. Among other things, the couple is eager for bell peppers that get enough sun to actually ripen.