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Beneath the Ivy
Beneath the Ivy is a seasonal living journal about routine, rhythm, and choosing a slower pace in an anxious world.


Tulips for Cottage Gardens: Growing Tips and the Beauty of Brief Seasons
Tulips arrive with such confidence in early spring — bright, upright, impossible to ignore — and then, almost as quickly, they begin to fade. Petals loosen. Colours soften. A windy afternoon can scatter them across the garden before you feel fully ready to let them go. And maybe that’s part of why they matter so much: tulips remind us that not everything beautiful is meant to last a long time. Some things are here to wake us up after winter. To bring colour back into our live

Tricia
May 134 min read


Yellow Globe Danvers Onion: A Classic Storage Onion for the Cottage Garden
In a garden filled with colourful heirloom vegetables, the Yellow Globe Danvers onion might not appear especially remarkable at first glance. Yet its quiet usefulness is exactly what made it so important to generations of gardeners.

Tricia
Mar 204 min read


The Sugar Snap Pea: From Idaho Fields to Backyard Gardens
Sugar snap peas are a spring garden favorite. Explore their history, with planting tips, care advice, and companion planting for a sweet, crisp spring harvest from your garden.

Tricia
Mar 113 min read


Your Gentle Guide to March: What's in Season at Home & in the Garden
March is a threshold month - a place to move gently, to follow what is ready, and to tend what is quietly coming to life in the garden and at home.

Tricia
Mar 66 min read
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