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24.07.16 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

When Gardeners and Their Gardens Grow Old

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It is a fact of life. Like weeds. You don’t even notice how it creeps up on you, but suddenly it is there and it must be dealt with: Age Two things begat this post, the fact that the heat has forced me to stay indoors and updating a post that had very good advice…

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22.07.15 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Nature Will Have Her Way

The Garden Effect : Soul + the REAL world

Nature takes no halfway measures. When in balance, with the sure and languorous change of seasons, we are lulled into the belief that our regimes and schemes hold sway, that humanity is all powerful in its display of dominance and power. Our technologies collude in the illusion of control and eminent domain over earths terrain,…

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20.09.14 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

The Growing Season Review

2014 + the REAL world + year in review

July looked best You know how people like to summarize their year during December and especially at the turn of the year? Well, this is that time for Gardeners. Premature you say? For me, I will yet again be absent from my garden and al that remains for me to do this year is planting…

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12.08.13 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Why Your Plants Die

Garden Stories and Memories + the REAL world

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…

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01.02.12 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Too Much Candy Is Probably Not A Good Thing

Garden design ideas + Garden Quotations + the REAL world

Too much candy? Why is she writing about this in her garden blog? You can blame it on an article I read on garden writing, Garden Photographs – some problems. And while I am not a big fan of ranting about garden topics, occasionally I read something that resonates with some underground opinion of my…

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15.01.11 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

A Curmudgeonly Gardener

the REAL world + winter

It could be blamed on the time of year, or it could be blamed on being cooped up in winter’s closed quarters. Or it might be the frustrated attempts to figure out yet another snafu in the maze of computer troubleshooting. It doesn’t really matter the reason, but I find everything a bit unnerving and…

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15.10.10 | Joanne Dibble | No Comments

another comment that grew

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a brief dialog like this one between ilona and me on the blog comment page is bigger than a txt or twitter, and smaller than an email, a letter or-gasp-a phonecall. really it has already been happening, right before our “screen-tired” eyes. it’s the end of the world of communication as we knew it. we have really lost…

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03.09.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Landscape Design Know-How + the REAL world

Rainer’s Photo of native biomass example I recently wrote a profile on English ivy, and it is with interest that I read this passionate gardener/landscaper’s post calling us to throw off the yoke of the groundcover and take on a style of native gardening. I empathize, and am almost persuaded. But there are a few…

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06.08.10 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

The Dilettante’s Lament

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once upon a time The trouble with my gardening, ..oh let’s admit it.. my whole life, is how widely interested, and thus shallowly engaged, I am with so many things. The only thing that gave me depth in my knowledge and experience of gardening has been two factors. I had no money, and having a…

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26.06.10 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

How Did I Get Here Again? Advice For Older Gardeners

gardening tips + the REAL world

Life Is Good A fellow garden blogger has to cut back on the hard labor in the yard due to medical issues. I can identify. We all grow older, and our gardens grow older… we can move from a garden (or house) that is too much work, but you are sort of stuck with your…

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