I started out years ago wanting to recreate The High Line in our backyard. Impossible, I know. Eventually my research led me to Roy Diblik’s The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden: “a simplified approach to making a design magazine-worthy garden achievable at home.”
Category: Reflections
Native, natural, neither: Westwood Park’s “rat house”
Instead of posting regularly as I planned, I now seem to be posting when inspiration strikes—as it did last week when I read a discussion of this article from last Sunday’s Kansas City Star: I’ve lived near this house for years and have followed this story with interest. On Facebook someone commented that they liked […]
Gardening as metaphor
Some thoughts about gardening’s power to console and heal
What to do in the garden this week
How to handle plants that naturalize
How Shaggy Is Too Shaggy?
Edging can be a great way to define and control a prairie planting.
Suddenly Nervous
Suddenly nervous about exposing the depths of my gardening ignorance, I checked out a book.