When I purchased Sunnyside Nursery in the fall of 1989, there was a large fig tree (actually a bush) growing in the back yard next to the old carriage house… Little did I know that a cutting from that very same fig would find its way back to the nursery almost 25 years later…


Now that we are in the full swing of autumn, ornamental grasses in our region are starting to strut their stuff. Instead of “bloom” I get to talk “plume” this week, and they are certainly “pluming” at the moment! As I walk my own landscape, the many grasses I have planted over the years make me smile and even though they…