Building a planter box out of an old crate and volunteering at the Deep Roots Habitat Gardens Tour.
Category: Reflections
Remembering Eleanor Perényi, who was more than a garden writer
Almost every list of classic gardening books includes Eleanor Perényi’s Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden. The third of the reissued Modern Library Gardening series I read last fall, it was my favorite.
Reviewing The Gardener’s Year, by Karel Čapek
The Gardener’s Year, by Karel Čapek., follows the gardener’s progress, month by month—although often this amounts to little progress, or no progress. Čapek pokes fun at the gardener’s hubris, helping us laugh at our own obsessiveness and making us feel less alone.
Paper gardening: a look at We Made a Garden, a garden writing classic
Margery Fish’s We Made a Garden describes the process, area by area, of creating a garden with her husband, Walter. The garden is interesting, but Margery’s tussles with Walter are even more so.
Assigning grades: native perennials for a front yard
Taking a moment to review and remember to inform my decisions as fall planting approaches.
Still waiting…(It’s spring, but doesn’t feel like it yet)
Waited for March. Now want April.
Wintry mix: first signs of spring
Welcome 2023! For so long winter has felt like it just wouldn’t budge. Then, all of a sudden, it budged. Birds are back. Finches are at the feeder. Yesterday I saw a dove. The first green spikes of daffodils have poked through some brown oak leaves. Today is dreary and cold, but the sky is […]
Dig, till, smother: How to remove sod for a new bed
Creating a new bed in the front yard.
Catching up: the new year starts for real
This is a highly miscellaneous post about various excitements: spring cleanup, seed starting, and an upcoming conference about environmental writing, Epicenter 2022
Is February the new March?
This is February? Brilliant sunshine, blue sky, sixty degrees? The gardener in you may be awakening, but don’t start digging yet.