I was reading over @ Hanna‘s ‘This Garden Is Illegal’, and in one of her posts Black Swamp Girl,Kim, remarked in the comments about the effect of all this mild weather on plants. We are all Ohioans, “Buckeyes”.There are ideas that global warming is actually a natural phenomenon, etc. and while many can argue their […]
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Perhaps you are more aware of Raven’s Nest than I was; if so, you perhaps read this excellent post on grasses in the landscape. I have long been looking at grasses as a way to make my gardens more in keeping with the environs here ( this was once prairie), but that isn’t the only […]
October in Poem
October’s Bright Blue Weather O SUNS and skies and clouds of June, And flowers of June together, Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather; When loud the bumblebee makes haste, Belated, thriftless vagrant, And goldenrod is dying fast, And lanes with grapes are fragrant; When gentians roll their fingers tight To save […]
Ode to an Old House
Something about old houses calls to certain sorts of people. Is it the history, the sense of rescue from the brink of no return? or is it just more pragmatic motivations? For all of us: a poem, and a picture. Deserted THE old house leans upon a tree Like some old man upon a staff: […]
Kathy has three parts up and is going strong…
Kathy Purdy of Cold Climate Gardening now has three parts of her series “Garden Blog Pioneers” up and running. This was a marvelous way to peek inside the workings of those beginning days of garden blogging. Kathy, having been one of those pioneers knew the interesting questions to ask, and she puts everything together with […]
Garden blogging voices, new and old
“O world as God has made it! All is beauty.” — ROBERT BROWNING Things have been busy in my neck of the woods. I finally have my own domain name and am in the process of setting up my garden articles there- my blogging will remain here. So that is the explanation for the slow […]
