Building planters out of two old crates and volunteering at the Deep Roots Habitat Gardens Tour.
Category: Reflections
Remembering Eleanor Perényi, who was more than a garden writer
Almost every list of classic gardening books includes Eleanor Perényi’s Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden.
Reviewing The Gardener’s Year, by Karel Čapek
The Gardener’s Year by Karel Čapek helps us laugh at our own obsessiveness
Paper gardening: a look at We Made a Garden, a garden writing classic
The most interesting aspect of Margery Fish’s We Made a Garden is Margery’s tussles with her husband Walter.
Assigning grades: native perennials for a front yard
Taking a moment to review and remember to inform my decisions as fall planting approaches.
Still waiting…(It’s spring, but doesn’t feel like it yet)
Waited for March. Now want April.
Wintry mix: first signs of spring
Welcome 2023! For so long winter has felt like it just wouldn’t budge. Then, all of a sudden, it budged.
Dig, till, smother: How to remove sod for a new bed
Creating a new bed in the front yard.
Catching up: the new year starts for real
This is a highly miscellaneous post about various excitements: spring cleanup, seed starting, and an upcoming conference about environmental writing, Epicenter 2022
Is February the new March?
This is February? Brilliant sunshine, blue sky, sixty degrees? The gardener in you may be awakening, but don’t start digging yet.