Outside my patio sliding door, in several pots on my south-facing, full sun deck, is a selection of herbs including parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme… These four herbs, along with several others also on my deck, are cold hardy and easy to grow year-round in our maritime climate…


After a couple decades of selecting, breeding and evaluating cultivar after cultivar, there are some very unique flavors of hybrid maples to choose from…