"Over and above fostering equanimity, the cultivation of a garden promotes the tenderer graces and extends the sweet charities of life." In other words, gardeners are generally, calm, nice, and …
“…gardeners are all a little like that.”
A flight, for any length of time, is a rare opportunity to read without feeling guilty about weeding, watering or wasted windows of opportunity to work in the garden. Or if you are more inclined - …
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Five Types of Shrub Buyers
Rhus aromatica 'Gro-Low' After completing extensive research, mostly from years of buying shrubs, I’ve noted five types of shrub buyers. The Researcher: The researchers know exactly what shrubs they …
The Theory of Hortonnection
Sculpture at the North Carolina Botanical Garden I am developing a new theory, the Theory of Hortonnection. My theory is that gardeners are more connected to one another than the general population …
Hortotropism at the Old Mill in Pigeon Forge
You won’t find a definition for hortotropism in a dictionary, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In fact, if you are a gardener and more than once you’ve struck up a conversation with a gardener …
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Evidence That Gardeners Are Born Not Made
MayDreamsGardens, IN -- Researchers at the Institute for Gardenetics Research and Other Work (iGROW) recently found that entwined along the strands of the DNA of gardeners were tiny little leaves, the …
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