Graves At Dawes Arboretum If I looked at the list in my Plant Cemetery I might be led to believe I have a black thumb instead of a green one. I’ve lost that many plants. This is not a confession to relieve my conscience, but an illustration of one of the many realities of working […]
General gardening
Canadian Thistles, Are They the Bane of your Garden?
I don’t know anyone who says they like this plant. We all call it a weed, and doggedly work to eradicate it from our yards. That has been one of my occupations of late, and I find there is something of an art to ridding the garden of Cirsium arvense, as horticultural Latin nomenclature labels […]
White Rabbit Gardening
Planting late- everything on sale It Started With Weeding I feel the pain of trying to make up for a month of gardening for the last few days. My body will no longer respond to my many plans. But I went out and bought flowers, anyway. I am hoping for a summer with plenty of […]
When Thoughts Turn To…Plants
It is January, and in Ohio we experienced our usual January thaw… so everything is quite soggy at this point. Most of the gardeners here realize that we have several more months until we can garden and at least one more month to expect winter weather, but right now our thoughts turn to plants -the […]
Illustrating a couple of my projects around here
Regular need of weeding Pictures, everyone! These two pictures illustrate a little of what and where I am spending my time. The pond hadn’t been touched for a couple years, but I had memories of how much I liked it, so I am completely emptying it ( this picture is of the initial phase. There […]
Gardening and the Younger Generation
In the Dawes Japanese garden I was going to put up a post full of pictures of my trip to Dawes Arboretum and tell you news about what is going on there…. but I didn’t get to it yet. I gardened. I lived my Real Life. But then Trey tweeted something about Doug Green’s blogpost […]
