Hello Fall of '12! Good bye and good riddance Summer of '12. Wherever you came from, please don't come back. You were a season of stealth. Day by day, hour by hour you robbed …
It’s a garden
It's a garden. It contains living plants that grow, sprawl, climb, spread, and flower. It's full of plants with fragrance, plants that have a special way of reflecting back the early morning sun or …
A garden lightly tended
I am reminded that a garden lightly tended will yield some lovely surprises, like this little field of columbine seedlings on the edge of Plopper's Field. I crawled around and through Plopper's Field …
Silence! Don’t disturb the gardener…
Silence. Do not disturb the gardener. She's disturbed enough. Kidding. She's actually quite happy. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, the dew is heavy and all about the garden flowers …
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Speed weeding
Weeding at top speeds approaching more than 20 weeds a minute, I speed weeded my way through a large garden area called The Shrubbery. I did not stop to choose a special tool and dig up any weeds. I …
Early Fall is the New Spring
Early Fall is the New Spring. After three months of the hottest, driest days I've ever experienced as a gardener, we finally had some good rains a few weeks ago and everyone breathed a collective …
