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Wild for Wildflowers
Gardeners often spend January and February pouring over seed catalogues dreaming, always dreaming. They turn the pages, suddenly halting...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 8, 20202 min read


Pause: Ma, the Power of Empty Space, Silence
Most people who know me know I am not the strong, SILENT type, but this week, your hip, non-hipsta’ main street gardener is in a...
Jennifer Tan
Feb 1, 20202 min read


Round Tree in a Square Hole? Get to the root of the problem!
People have been gardening and cultivating the earth beneath our feet for millenia upon millenia; just when this hip, non-hipster...
Jennifer Tan
Jan 25, 20203 min read


Kisetsu: The Year of the Island Garden 2020
Akemashite omedetô gozaimasu! Happy New Year to gardeners everywhere. In 2020, Wellfield Botanic Gardens is celebrating the opening of...
Jennifer Tan
Jan 18, 20202 min read


An Oration on Aeration
“Oh gardener, my gardener, I came to a fork in a garden path and I took the one less compacted”. Thus begins absolutely no poem I have...
Jennifer Tan
Dec 27, 20192 min read
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