Snowdrop bud I've heard some rumblings from a few people concerned about me getting bored as we begin to walk through that big valley of winter called February. No worries. I'm all set. Ready to go. …
Dear Garden Blog…
Hellebores, what would winter be without them? Dearest Garden Blog, I'm writing to offer my apologies for neglecting you for over a week. It was not my intention to leave you with no new updates for …
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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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 …
Hennessy leads to the search for Houdyshel
Knock Out Rose, I don't think Hennessey would approve I found Roy Hennessey unexpectedly the other evening while reading What There is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and …
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Summer Reading – The Squabbling Garden
The Squabbling Garden, 1934 I love summertime reading. Every summer, I think I'll discover some new-to-me old garden writer. I live for that possibility. I search for old garden books in …
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