Pictures Worth A Thousand Words

Posted in Featured Articles, garden stories I have a few photos of my garden, and it reminded me of advice to take pictures for a more objective view of your garden, to use as a base for making plans and noting what you like, what is working, and what you might want to change. I find as my garden in maturing that there is a need to change the design and plantings, but I am so attached, sentimentally so, to a garden that has been...
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Why I Garden and Why You Should, Too

Posted in garden stories I was watching the video of Beth Chatto conversing on her garden, and she said something which struck such a chord with me, that I felt it expressed not only why those of us garden, but why someone should garden. It was a type of summary of the basic reward of gardening. Asked about a remark in one of her books, that gardening is like bringing up a family, she said this: For all of us...
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Flora and Fauna: Hummingbirds

Posted in garden stories, general gardening, landscaping Animated Jewels of the Garden The tiny hummingbird captures our hearts with a fascination few other birds inspire. And since I have my own little anecdote to share,they rate an entire page to themselves; but as you will see, that is nothing, there are whole sites dedicated to them. A few facts for fun: Hummingbirds are highly territorial The male likes a high perch to keep an eye out for...
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Why A Gardener Loves Slavery To A Garden

Posted in garden stories Is there such a thing as maintenance free gardening? No. Is there such a thing as easy gardening? No. Is gardening hard physical labor? Sure is…. so why do it? Why expend all that effort? Because of love. That’s right, we are love-slaves to our gardens. It is because of the many things that a garden can satisfy within us that we gladly serve it. A closeness with the earth…...
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Garden: Fail

Posted in Featured Articles, garden stories, general gardening Sometimes you can learn from garden failures, and since I have had a lot of experience with that… you can probably learn a lot from me! Sure, everyone wants to see the successes and vicariously ride the coattails of the ‘Green Thumb Wonders’. But believe me, even the best of them have had plenty of failures under their belts, and that is one great way to learn how to master...
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