Month: January 2026

As a fellow gardener, I’m sure you know how difficult the month of January is. The holidays are over. Resolutions have been made. (Some already broken.) There’s still plenty of winter ahead, and we find ourselves suddenly in a dreary lull. That’s about the time the seed catalogs start rolling in. The urge hits hard […]

Despite writing for our Rural Sprout readers for a few years now and mentioning lilac in no fewer than six articles, it has just dawned on me that I haven’t published one single article dedicated entirely to this shrub (Latin name: Syringa vulgaris). So far, I’ve only referred to it as part of a list. […]