Obligatory Garden Picture A quote that I love from the book that I love titled The Garden that I Love... "What would be the good or the pleasure of a garden if one did not make experiments?" (Alfred …
My Garden Has Moved
Plopper's Field, now in a zone 6a garden My garden has moved... sort of. When the new USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map came out earlier today, I dutifully entered my zip code and discovered, as I …
The Garden that I Love
The universe, aided by my garden designer, gently pushed me toward a new rabbit hole. After skirting around it through a busy weekend, I've finally fallen in. I got my first glimpse of this …
Inconceivable Antiquity
"How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!" Ralph Waldo Emerson Bring on the roses, violets, and morning dew, it's time for …
Scarlet Sage
I received some unexpected mail yesterday, a manila envelope from an aunt. Inside the envelope was a copy of a letter my Aunt Marjorie wrote in 2004 with memories of her father, and in …
More Gardening Points from 1901
The observant reader may have noticed that in my previous blog post, where I outlined the points listed in "The Book of Old-Fashioned Flowers and Other Plants Which Thrive in the Open-Air of England …
