Irene Virag

Irene Virag 12/27/08 GARDENS: JANUARY 2008

If there's one thing I've learned about resolutions, it's ... Read more »

Irene Virag 12/20/08 Inspired by a master of miniatures

Like life, the garden path is a winding road. You never ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/29/08 Gardens: DECEMBER 2008

It's become a tradition for me to garland my December ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/22/08 Giving thanks for plants, more

Thanksgiving fast approaches, and as usual, I'm thankful ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/15/08 Studiously painted with plants

As an undergraduate more years ago than I would like to ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/8/08 Field trip to two top variety shows

Even though I tend to be self-conscious about wearing ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/1/08 Where life still refuses to fade

Muted clouds tinge the sky with gray and add to the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/25/08 NOVEMBER 2008

Apples are crunchy, potatoes are sweet and squash is ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/18/08 �Mr. Virag� is cuckoo for cucuzz

This is a story about a man and a vegetable. The man is my ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/11/08 A real tree-lover takes a bow

The slender brown-haired woman in sneakers, beige pants and ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/27/08 GARDENS: OCTOBER 2008

It's October, the russet month of autumn. The bittersweet ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/13/08 GARDENS: Hello, dahlia, you're looking swell

Early one September morn, as I was rushing to an ... Read more »

Other Columnists 7/5/08 GARDENS: No limits on these containers

Like a lot of things in the garden, a well-planted pot is a ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/28/08 JULY 2008

If all goes as expected, it should be hot, hot, hot as July ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/21/08 Nurturing a nation of gardeners

At twilight, in the sultry haze of a Southern heat spell, ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/7/08 GARDENS: Waves of color, as time flies by

All through winter, I wait for spring. And then it starts, ... Read more »

Irene Virag 5/31/08 Where a family bloomed

On any given day in the growing season - especially on ... Read more »

Irene Virag 5/31/08 GARDENS: JUNE 2008

June is busting out all over, and the sun reaches the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/1/08 GARDENS

I'm bundled up in a thick wool sweater and hooded parka on ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/5/08 GARDENS: A love for bright, shining whites

We revived our tradition of a year-end holiday party this ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/10/07 GARDENS

The first part of this column did not appear in the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/27/07 GARDENS: NOVEMBER

And along comes November, the crisp, crunchy cleanup month. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/20/07 GARDENS

Bright and colorful and in bloom till frost and maybe a bit ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/13/07 GARDENS

I truly believe that we're all in our gardens, and our ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/29/07 GARDENS: OCTOBER

October arrives with the burnished light of autumn. Amber ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/22/07 A railroad runs through them

Toot. Toot. The maroon Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/1/07 Lessons from the dahlia master

In my garden, it's the year of the dahlia. The beds I ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/7/07 GARDENS

I just came in from planting a bed by the pool with cannas, ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/30/07 GARDENS

Let the fireworks begin. Not the hazardous kind that ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/9/07 GARDENS

When I heard the theme of the Long Island Rose Society's ... Read more »

Irene Virag 4/7/07 GARDENS

The first time I talked to Bill Radler, I was in rose hell. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/31/07 GARDENS: APRIL

I think of April as a joyous month, when spring is a living ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/24/07 GARDENS

For a long time, I had this dream of sitting by a lagoon in ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/17/07 GARDENS

In just two days, at precisely 8:07 p.m., the vernal ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/10/07 GARDENS

It's fairly common knowledge that a rose is a rose is a ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/3/07 GARDENS

I don't know about you, but I love a good flower show. It's ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/6/07 GARDENS

Until recently, most of what I knew about Las Vegas came ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/11/06 Entwined across a century

The russet tones of autumn steal softly across Old Westbury ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/4/06 GARDENS

And so winter hovers, frost kills and we're not in denial ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/28/06 GARDENS

The trees grow bare and the world glows in shades of brown ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/14/06 GARDENS

Everybody who tills the good earth needs a good garden ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/7/06 GARDENS

I've received a bushel of letters and e-mails from fellow ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/30/06 GARDENS

As a small-town boy growing up in southwest Michigan, Scott ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/23/06 GARDENS

October is a poignant month of cooling earth and falling ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/16/06 GARDENS

A funny thing happened on my way to the Garden Writers ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/9/06 GARDENS

As the season starts cooling down, dahlias start heating ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/2/06 GARDENS

It's been a busy time in my gardens - both in the earth and ... Read more »

Irene Virag 8/26/06 GARDENS: SEPTEMBER 2006

September always shows up too soon. It's the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 8/19/06 GARDENS

'Don't expect a cultivated garden," Paul Adams cautioned me ... Read more »

Irene Virag 8/5/06 GARDENS

The rains came and it was OK because so did the lilies. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/29/06 GARDENS

Flowers and foliage stretch across seven acres in Cutchogue ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/22/06 GARDENS

In the garden, August is the month of opulence. Hydrangeas ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/15/06 GARDENS

What you have to understand about daylilies is that they're ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/8/06 GARDENS

Several years ago, I visited textile designer Jack Lenor ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/1/06 GARDENS

Normally I would have shuddered at the roar and rumble of ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/24/06 GARDENS

The heat's on. In the garden, that means it's a hot time ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/17/06 GARDENS

Earle Thompson will be 87 this year, and he picks his steps ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/10/06 GARDENS

If you like heavenly fragran-ces, undeniable beauty, a ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/3/06 GARDENS

The red stalks of rhubarb signal new life, as do the buds ... Read more »

Irene Virag 4/8/06 GARDENS

Several years ago, my friend Fritzi Weinstein taught me how ... Read more »

Irene Virag 4/1/06 GARDENS

Ihave been dreaming about sweet peas - not the vegetables ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/25/06 GARDENS: APRIL

If April is the month when showers bring the flowers that ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/18/06 Buds foretell spring's splendor

It was night when I flew in from Arizona. I needed a jacket ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/11/06 GARDENS

The temperature is in the 80s, the sun is shining, and ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/4/06 GARDENS

I love my dirt. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 2/25/06 GARDENS

And now March arrives. Whether it comes in like a lamb or a ... Read more »

Irene Virag 2/18/06 Hail to first gardener-in-chief

He was eulogized as "first in war, first in peace and first ... Read more »

Irene Virag 2/11/06 If you must give roses, buy a bush

All I want for Valentine's Day is a big box of chocolate ... Read more »

Irene Virag 2/4/06 Seeing purple in seed catalogs

If you're like me, thumbing through Johnny's and Burpee and ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/28/06 GARDENS

'If winter comes," wrote the poet Shelley, "can spring be ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/21/06 Warm words ease winter's chill

Summertime and the reading is easy. Or at least that's what ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/14/06 GARDENS

On a bright day in January, when sunshine atones for the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/7/06 As vegetables go, chiles are hot!

Here's some news to warm up by. The National Garden Bureau ... Read more »

Irene Virag 12/31/05 GARDENS

January's reputation is that of a gray-white month when ... Read more »

Irene Virag 11/2/05 HER design FOR LIVING

One of her sons saw the house in a newspaper advertisement ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/29/05 GARDENS

The ground cools. Fall is fading and winter is on the way. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/15/05 Autumn, the poignant season

In the beginning, autumn covers the garden like a coat of ... Read more »

Irene Virag 10/5/05 Kindred spirits in clutter

'Dear Irene," the e-mail began. "What have you been doing ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/24/05 OCTOBER 2005

October brings us bright blue skies but it is a poignant ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/14/05 Everybody out of the pool, alas

We're observing an end-of-summer rite this week. We're ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/10/05 A tribute in roses

Gray clouds move across the sky, the sun coming and going ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/9/05 Silvers worth their weight in gold

The Salvia argentea I planted last year rewarded me ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/6/05 The vacuum swept me off my feet

The reception bubbles inside a big yellow ball-like tent ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/22/05 A new Home columnist: sofa, so good

It started with a couch. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/18/05 Fathers and sons rooted in LI soil

The company president is tall and dark-haired with the kind ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/11/05 An abundance of 'favorites'

As a writer, it's part of my job to ask questions. But ... Read more »

Irene Virag 9/11/04 GARDENS

SEPTEMBER ... Read more »

Irene Virag 8/21/04 The greening of my triple venti

Two of my favorite things came together this summer - ... Read more »

Irene Virag 8/7/04 Her garden through others' eyes

The Northport Historical Society held a garden tour at my ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/28/04 Perennials on parade

It's a perennial pleasure to write about perennials and ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/24/04 GARDENS

One day you're sowing seeds or planting seedlings and then ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/17/04 GARDENS

It was a dark and stormy - well, it was dark. It was the ... Read more »

Irene Virag 7/10/04 GARDENS

My husband doesn't fish, hunt, play golf or hang out in ... Read more »

Irene Virag 6/26/04 Here comes the sun - in a rose

Roses have been a symbol of beauty ever since they were ... Read more »

Irene Virag 4/14/04 BREAST CANCER MEMORIAL

Clouds dimmed the day and the earth was still wet from a ... Read more »

Irene Virag 4/3/04 A NATURE JOURNAL

I was in the kitchen unloading the dishwasher when spring ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/17/04 The allure of orchids / From the beautiful to the bizarre, they're more than mere corsages

'Is it real?" people ask. ... Read more »

Irene Virag 3/13/04 A NATURE JOURNAL: A journey ends, but the cycle continues

It is a year since I began this journey into the natural ... Read more »

Irene Virag 2/7/04 The Real Dirt on Earthworms / They're not beneficial in every area

When it comes to heroes, the natural world is full of ... Read more »

Irene Virag 1/10/04 Winged Wonders Inherit the Wind / Stouthearted marine birds inspire awe

I have crossed Long Island Sound by ferry and voyaged ... Read more »