Re-Retired from Garden Drawings

   For 19 years, I offered home gardening consults and/or drawings for do-it-selfers who needed some help in the landscape.

   At the end of 2018, my wife and I semi-retired and moved to Pittsburgh to be nearer to our grandkids. That’s when I cut out designing to focus on writing, speaking, and leading garden trips.

   After a brief “unretirement” from drawings during the 2020-21 COVID pandemic (when most of the talks and trips on my calendar got wiped out), I’m crawling back into my retired-from-design hole and re-retiring from drawings.

   I’ll still be writing for The Patriot-News and PennLive.com as well as my own web site and assorted free-lance writing projects.

   If you’re looking for someone to help you with a yard upgrade, I can give you referrals for others I trust to do a good and unbiased job with advice and plant selection. Email me at george@georgeweigel.net for their contact information.

   Otherwise, you might be able to get what you need from a few of my written resources.

   One is my 19-page “George’s Survivor Plants for Pennsylvania” list (a detailed listing of hundreds of the best plants for our climate and soils along with key facts on each).

   Then there’s my Cool Springs Press “Pennsylvania Month-by-Month Gardening” book (a 240-page “to-do list” describing what jobs need to be done when throughout the entire year).

   Both of those are available through my George’s Helpful Information page.

   I also wrote a 240-page “Pennsylvania Getting Started Gardening Guide” book (which highlights my 170 favorite plants for Pennsylvania yards), but that one has gone out of print. You might still be able to find a copy on Amazon, though. 

   Best wishes with your project, and sorry I went and got old enough to start cutting back.