The title for this post comes from a quote from The Golden Circle: A Book of Months by Hal Borland with paintings by Anne Ophelia Dowden (1977). In the chapter for July, Borland wrote, "The …
But I Want the Old One!
I like to read old gardening books and magazines. But the danger in reading old gardening books and magazines is that you are introduced to old varieties of flowers and vegetables and then you …
Garden Fairies Now Want…
Garden fairies here! We are garden fairies and we have done an outstanding job this spring getting some of the violas to self-sow a bit around the garden. Like this little cutie amongst the …
Garden Seating
Before you take a seat to read what I have to say about garden seating, or rather what Dorothy Giles has to say about garden seating, I want to assure you that this picture is not recent. I’m not sure …
Shall We Harken Back to 1926 for Tomato-Growing Advice?
Shall we harken back to 1926 for some tomato-growing advice? Why not? After all, I've already tried, with pretty good success, growing lettuce like it's 1957. And I'm attempting to get my …
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Skip Winter? I Think Not!
Today I pulled The Seasons in a Flower Garden: A Handbook of Information and Instruction for the Amateur by Louise Shelton (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909) off my shelf to see what she wrote about …