Barbara Mahany

Lesley M.M. Blume, the New York editor of an online culture and style website, hardly cuts the profile of someone with her Manolo Blahniks stuck in the cement of the...

"The Kitchen Gardener's Handbook" By Jennifer R. Bartley (Timber Press, $22.95) What it is: "The Kitchen Gardener's Handbook" supplies a four-season spin through the kitchen garden, chock-full of plant notes...

"The American Impressionists in the Garden" Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Essay by May Brawley Hill (Vanderbilt University Press, $29.95) What it is: "The American Impressionists in the...

What it is: Truly encyclopedic, "Bird Songs Bible" is a masterwork. Drawing from the vast sound archives of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, it gathers an entire continent of birds...

A calendar, at its stripped-down essence, is little more than grid with numbers, one grid piled on another till at last a year zips by. Ah, but there are endless...

So, by now, the tinsel is drooping, if not long gone. The mountains of wrapping paper, hauled to recycling. Even the eggnog's gone sour. The last thing you're likely to...

Perhaps, back in sixth-grade science class, your teacher had you slice off the head of a two-liter plastic soda bottle. And you tucked inside a sweet potato that you had...

'The Curious Gardener: A Year in the Garden' By Anna Pavord (Bloomsbury, $35) What it is: "The Curious Gardener," a collection of essays and planting particulars gathered into a bouquet...