Category: Gardeners

The love and joy of gardening is the doing, not the having

Post author By mywildgarden
Post date November 2, 2021
Categories In et cetera, Gardeners, Learning, Reflections

This fall, one thing I will not be doing is raking and bagging.

Magnificent micro-gardens beautify New York streets

Post author By mywildgarden
Post date September 10, 2021
Categories In Garden Visits, Gardeners, Reflections, Visits

I’ve been traveling this week so I haven’t had a chance to work in the garden, but this turned up in my Facebook feed and I have to share. In New York City, empty tree pits along Sixth Avenue were collecting trash and growing weeds. “Tree pits” is what the city calls the square openings […]

Gardening as metaphor

Post author By mywildgarden
Post date October 9, 2020
Categories In Books, Gardeners, Reflections

Some thoughts about gardening’s power to console and heal

Creating a paradise for pollinators and people, with Dana Posten

Post author By mywildgarden
Post date September 25, 2020
Categories In Design, Garden Visits, Gardeners, Learning

Kansas City gardener Dana Posten shows us her formal pollinator garden

Dutch Master

If you’re like me, as you go about your day, you’re always on the lookout for plantings that are out of the ordinary, like these on the west side of Ward Parkway at 64th Terrace.