"Do the wildflowers speak to you--do they know you as a friend, or pass you by as an alien? Do you know their names--their language--their secrets?" I know the wildflowers know my friend Gail of Clay …
Phytoncides
A shrub, not a tree. Callicarpa dichotoma 'Early Amethyst' As I was mowing the lawn this evening, I imagined all the phytoncides I was breathing in and I was... delighted. Phytoncides are …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – October 2013
Kalimeris pinnatifida ‘Hortensis' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for October 2013. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the growing season is winding down, though we …
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A Play Called Autumn
Let’s listen in as the Director of “A Play Called Autumn” conducts a rehearsal. Director: Queue up the asters for the opening number. And action! (Music plays, asters dance onto center stage with …
I’m interested in their gardens…
I'm getting ready to find out more about the writer Eudora Welty by reading One Writer's Garden: Eudora Welty's Home Place by Susan Haltom, Jane Roy Brown, and Langdon Clay (University Press of …
More entries from the Secret Diary of a Garden Fairy
A lone Colchicum Now where were we? Oh yes, I was recalling how I had found the Secret Dairy of a Garden Fairy, returned it, and then found it again a few days later. Those fairies seem to leave …
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