Stories of gardening, including design, techniques, and the occasional “how-to.”
Blimey, this was a while ago! Me, reading one of those paper things we used to get. Keeping my brain healthy? I’m a lazy sort, and I like [...]
It's all about filling a blank space, visualizing what can be, moving words or plants around, just shoving the familiar, the conscious mind out of the way and allowing [...]
Maybe some people come home from their full time jobs and put in a couple hours of gardening before dinner. I am not one of them. I have to hope [...]
Today’s post isn’t so much a rant as it is a whine. Pacific Northwest gardeners have raised whining about the weather to a high art. Ours is a seasonal lamentation [...]
I think I'm a reasonably competent gardener. I've been gardening for over 25 years now, and for 20 of those years I've been earning my living in nurseries and gardens. [...]
Fritillary nectaring on non-native privet By Guest Ranter Kathy Introne It never ceases to amaze me how many gardeners are blatantly killing our natural world - [...]
More is better. For the love of wanton annuals. (C) Lorene Edwards Forkner I like to turn hardy annuals loose in my garden, for the flowers of course, [...]
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” Wise words from Frances Hodgson Burnett in her much loved novel The Secret Garden. [...]
Many years ago I wrote an article entitled “Beans or Beach?” – bemoaning the difficulty that serious gardeners have in leaving their gardens like normal people and taking vacations. “If [...]
We live fairly near The Laskett. So seeing it was open, we thought we'd have an afternoon out and went to visit. And we took lots of photos - so [...]
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, [...]
