The Providential Gardener

Blithewold ~ A Rhode Island Treasure ~ Centennial Celebrations in 2008

Rhode Island is full of great places to explore and fascinating things to do, and I just can't keep up with it all! Much of my time these days is going into growing the comprehensive union Calendar of environment-related events... Read more →

Another Garden Book by Local Authors

Although last Saturday was warm and lovely enough to tempt me into the garden, we probably have many days ahead of us before we can do much work out there. I resisted pruning because it's not necessarily a good time... Read more →

Speaking of Backyard Gardens....

Speaking of backyard gardens... is Katherine Brown, Executive Director of Southside Community Land Trust. Take 5 minutes to see this video filmed in the summer of 2007 on Natural News Network. Katherine describes the work SCLT does to establish community... Read more →

Backyard Gardens Made Easier

Here is a great idea. Maybe others have thought of this, but I found it in Seven Arrows Early Winter Newsletter. [Ed. note: I encourage any and every commercial nursery to provide workshops, educational opportunities, and encouragement to us Rhode... Read more →

The Rhode Island Gardener's Companion is Published!

I am delighted to report that Barbara Gee's second book, "The Rhode Island Gardener's Companion: An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Ocean State" is now available. If only I had had the energy to let you all know in... Read more →

Edible Forest Gardens

If you follow through on the link to The Real Food Summit (the post before this one), you'll find links to a great green blog by NYU students called The Wild Green Yonder. They work on such things as local... Read more →

Tucking the Beds (and the Tools) in for the Winter

Rhode Island is fortunate to have several local online information sources for gardeners, and as we lurch toward winter, I thought I'd check out how our gardening neighbors are winterizing their garden beds. Blithewold's garden blog is a useful illustrated... Read more →

Secrets of Expert Rose Gardeners

If you love roses, you can't do better than to join the Rhode Island Rose Society. Their quarterly publication, Rhode Island Rose Review, is one of the best newsletters by the numerous gardening groups in the state, and well worth... Read more →

The Flowering of Olneyville.... The Power of a Seed

Riverside Mill Park was the appropriate scene for celebrating Olneyville's revitalization this week. Projo's stories on the event ("Taking pride in the neighborhood pays off for Olneyville" and "City's community policing receives more high praise" in the Tuesday, November 6,... Read more →

Garden/Landscape Masters & Professionals

Although garden and landscape work is winding down in mid-October [although it's hard to keep that in mind when the temperature hits 76 degrees, as it did today], the Master Gardeners and RINLA professionals are still busy. URI Master Gardeners... Read more →