How does a plant doctor-plant pathologist end her autobiography, titled Plant Doctoring is Fun? If you are Cynthia Westcott, you end it with a collection of recipes and an invitation to join her …
Cynthia Westcott’s Plant Doctoring is Fun
Cynthia Westcott Goodness, that was a fun and educational autobiography, a delightful rabbit hole to explore. I just finished reading Plant Doctoring is Fun by Cynthia Westcott (1957, D. van …
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What could be better for summer reading?
What could be better for summer reading? I could not resist buying Plant Doctoring is Fun by Cynthia Westcott (1957, D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc.) when I saw it in a used bookstore. I wasn't …
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Ridgewood Avenue
Come walk with me down Ridgewood Avenue. Enter in the shade and exit in the sun by the Vegetable Garden Cathedral. Walk slowly now. On the left is August Dreams Garden which will be in peak bloom …
MDG Home and Tea Room for Antiquarian Gardening Books
Two violets talking in the garden. Management here at the May Dreams Gardens Home and Tea Room for Antiquarian Garden Books (MDGHTRAGB) has decreed that no more old gardening books will be admitted …
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Chapter XVII – Funding the Garden
I recently purchased a copy of Garden Works by William Good F.R.H.S. (Blackie and Son Limited, 1913) after Dee of Red Dirt Ramblings taunted me with a picture of the cover. I had no idea what it was …
