Q for You: Do you talk to plants?
Recent science tells us plants can “hear,” but I’m not sure it even matters.
Karen Templer
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.
On being a beginning gardener (for the third time)
A short history of my 4 gardens, across 20 years and 3 climates.
Q for You: What do you garden for?
There’s no right or wrong answer!
Let’s get this garden started
Ok, the back story. Literally.
Linking About: Mimicking nature, dimming lights, and following the foxes
5 things that have caught my attention lately
Book Shelf: The Serviceberry by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This small book about a culture of reciprocity and abundance is more conversation-starter than road map — but it’s a vital conversation.
It’s a carport, it’s a porch — it’s the carporch
When the carport is the only place to sit in the shade, you dust off your chairs and make it work!
Snapshot: The little oakleaf that could
Valiant heroine, late bloomer, or both?