plant list
On My List: Keystone plants
The start of a planting plan, with the most eco-beneficial plants first.
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On the value of mistakes and ‘failures’
... and sharing them publicly in a world of make-believe effortlessness.
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Snapshots: Hello, Steve!
My first homegrown dahlia, in all her peachy splendor.
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Minding the gaps
But using my FutureVision skills to keep me from doing anything rash.
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Early Fall = get busy!
Made myself a September garden to-do list, so fall doesn’t race right past me.
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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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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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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!