The stone crazy-paving front walk is no more. The front walk became a constant garden chore. I had laboriously weeded a crazy patchwork of fieldstones that we installed years ago. For a long time it looked pretty good with the original sandy mortar joints. Following the example of a neighbor at my old city neighborhood, […]
the REAL world
When Gardeners and Their Gardens Grow Old
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 […]
Nature Will Have Her Way
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, […]
The Growing Season 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 […]
Why Your Plants Die
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 […]
Too Much Candy Is Probably Not A Good Thing
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 […]
