My pal Gina has developed a great new feature over at her blog, My Skinny Garden. She’s featuring different gardeners, asking them to fill out a survey and provide photos of their gardens for a virtual garden tour. I am really honored to be the first gardener featured! It was interesting selecting the photos for [...]
Read more →First: I may have gone overboard with the cucumbers this year. Second: I may also have gone overboard with the tomatoes and beans. Third: It’s going to be a great summer It’s been a busy couple of days around here. Yesterday, I added a few more perennials to the front garden (more on that another [...]
Read more →While I was dropping my daughter off at school this morning, Morning Edition was reporting on the Emily Dickinson exhibit at the New York Botanical Garden (which I’ve posted about here, earlier this month.) They were talking to the horticulturists behind the exhibit. At one point, when the correspondent was interviewing Todd Forrest, who designed [...]
Read more →“I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there’s a pair of us – don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog!” –Emily Dickinson This was the first poem I ever memorized. We [...]
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