On the value of mistakes and ‘failures’

... and sharing them publicly in a world of make-believe effortlessness.

Snapshots: Hello, Steve!

My first homegrown dahlia, in all her peachy splendor.

Book Shelf: “The Garden Against Time” by Olivia Laing

My new favorite literary garden memoir — and I haven’t even finished it yet.

Linking About: Other people’s dahlias

Inspiration and resources, in the hope I’ll get it right next year!

Minding the gaps

But using my FutureVision skills to keep me from doing anything rash.

Field Trip: Mountain Top Arboretum

Wandering the landscapes and pathways of a public Catskills garden-forest.

Early Fall = get busy!

Made myself a September garden to-do list, so fall doesn’t race right past me.

Q for You: Do you talk to plants?

Recent science tells us plants can “hear,” but I’m not sure it even matters.

Driveway Potager, take one: Better luck next year?

A first (small, makeshift) attempt at growing food in the northeast.

Linking About: Reliable Sources, Medicinal Plants and Sentient Snap Dragons

Plus grass-meets-forest inspo, for 7 links worth clicking.

Book Shelf: ‘Lawn’ by Giovanni Aloi

Academic, sarcastic and enlightening: How the mown lawn became sacred.

Playing Favorites: New York Ironweed (Vernonia Noveboracensis)

Last year I fell head over heels in love with a plant I’d unknowingly already been in love with for years.