Field Trip: Russel Wright’s living legend, Manitoga
I was not prepared for the “garden” at Dragon Rock.
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Roasting cherry tomatoes for later
The gift you’ll thank yourself for in the dead of winter.
On My List: Keystone plants
The start of a planting plan, with the most eco-beneficial plants first.
Linking About: Saving seeds, leaving leaves, and our collective loss of smells ...
A very October link list.
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.
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Driveway Potager, take one: Better luck next year?
A first (small, makeshift) attempt at growing food in the northeast.
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Linking About: Reliable Sources, Medicinal Plants and Sentient Snap Dragons
Plus grass-meets-forest inspo, for 7 links worth clicking.
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Book Shelf: ‘Lawn’ by Giovanni Aloi
Academic, sarcastic and enlightening: How the mown lawn became sacred.
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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.
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On being a beginning gardener (for the third time)
A short history of my 4 gardens, across 20 years and 3 climates.
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Q for You: What do you garden for?
There’s no right or wrong answer!
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Let’s get this garden started
Ok, the back story. Literally.
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Linking About: Mimicking nature, dimming lights, and following the foxes
5 things that have caught my attention lately
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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.
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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!
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Snapshot: The little oakleaf that could
Valiant heroine, late bloomer, or both?
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Heaven is a forest: An intro
Embarking on a years-long attempt to transform a bare rectangle of turf grass into a shady oasis.