I have gardened in some way or another for most of my 56+ years now, but I also came from gardening stock -at least as far back as my grandparents. I suppose that is why plants and trees often stand out in my memory from quite early. The streets I lived on were city streets, […]
Garden Stories and Memories
Thrift, Daffs and the Three sisters
i cannot continue this ‘heirloom plant’ saga without mentioning a classic southernspring combination… the very-pink spreader creeping along walls and red-dirt banksis called”Thrift”( i believe it is a creeping phlox). so rugged and egalitarian, it appearsalong the roadsides frequently, at an old cabin or around a high-dollar iron gate; alongwith the host of common daffodils, […]
Old Fashioned Things
Three Revolutionary soldiers are buried in this pioneer burial place, the Beard-Green cemetery, located within Dawes arboretum. On one old grave, whose markings were long defaced by rain and other unkindnesses, grew a lone stand of scilla hispanica. I sat on the ground to photograph it; as in olden custom there were plots that were […]
Peripherals: The Greenhouse
Not having weighed in here for a little while, it was time! A household is so much more than the shell of the house itself, there are furnishings, interiors and exteriors, and there are the out buildings, which I am calling the “peripherals”, here. Nowadays, even the garage is connected to the main house, so […]
“REAL-izing” visions and plans
it has been chillygrey- raining and raining for four straight days now. ponds in the pasture hollows, and puddles in my garden. no high-heels for me, but i did pull off a badly-tied tennis shoe in the driveway muddy spot this morning. springtime in georgia has a steady recognizable melody; all turns slowly and surely […]
My Garden Roots
Way back, …oh, in 2005… I came across a meme that I had fun doing called the “Where I’m From” poem. It seems to have started with Fragments from Floyd, although I first ran across it @ Pratie’s Place. They were all based on an original poem. Since doing the Garden Mission Statement and seeing […]
