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 …
A Bit of Wisdom from 1935
I'm pleased to bring you a bit of gardening wisdom from 1935, from the book Four Hedges: A Gardener's Chronicle by Clare Leighton. The picture I've chosen to go with this wisdom is just a random, …
A Memory of Violets
My list of books featuring pansies, violets, or violas as part of the story now stands at... Two books. This past week I finished reading and listening to A Memory of Violets: A Novel of …
From the North Pole!
I shall presume you have some knowledge of The Halloween Hare, how he tells secrets about gardeners to the Christmas Cottontail so when the Christmas Cottontail visits with Santa Claus on Christmas …
