I'm going to blame Josephine Nuese for my latest reading goal/obsession. In her book, The Country Garden (1970), Josephine takes the reader through her garden starting in January and continuing …
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Josephine Nuese
In January, a popular garden meme makes its way around the internet with a quote that may or may not be attributed to its author, Josephine Nuese, my next featured Lost Lady of Garden Writing. The …
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Garden Writing, AI Style
I did it. I used one of the popular and currently free artificial intelligence sites to generate some writing about gardening, just for fun. If you aren't familiar with artificial intelligence …
Happy New Year, Twenty-Three
The rabbit named Twenty-Two stood at the gate, knowing her time was up. She had packed her bags with extra care, determined that her successor, Twenty-Three, would have as clean a slate as one …
Lost Ladies of Garden Writing: Mildred Luedy
In my stack of Christmas-y gardening books is a slim book, The Christmas Rose, written and published in 1948 by Arthur E. and Mildred V. Luedy. 'Tis the season for Mildred to be my latest lost lady …
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A Botanical Study, from 1908-09
I received an email from a cousin last spring letting me know he had a homework assignment of our grandmother's that he thought I might find interesting. He confirmed my address and sent it my …