Thus begins the season of bending over and peering down at the ground looking for signs of life, for flowers in the snow, for little signs of hope. In the back garden, I bend over with abandon, …
An Updated Gardener’s Guide to Thanksgiving Day Conversation
Yes, I am taking time from my busy schedule and long to do list, which includes "mow the lawn one last time" to pause and provide advice for gardeners who are wondering what they will talk about …
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The Exciting Conclusion of a Tale of Two Plant Catalogs
And now, the exciting conclusion of a tale of two plant catalogs. To catch you up, dear readers, we begin a ways back when I fell into a rabbit hole of old plant catalog references, which resulted in …
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Maladies of Gardeners
The great Dr. Hortfreud has been studying gardeners, or at least one particular gardener, for years. She has observed that this gardener, and presumably many other gardeners, are prone to a …
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – November 2015
Camellia X 'Snow Flurry' Welcome to Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day for November 2015. Here in my USDA Hardiness Zone 6a garden in central Indiana, the blooms outside are scarce but like anything scarce, …
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Old plant catalogs
I was quite pleased to recently purchase a copy of Roy Hennessey's 1961-62 Rose Catalog after reading about it a few days ago in a book of letters between the writers Eudora Welty and William …
