quince Last week my old friend Dan Millman asked me, “So, are you busy working in your garden?” Silence. Thinking, uh, not really. “Umm.” “Oh, winter?” Something like that. These are not the fun times in the garden. They really are not. At best I’m using the blower to move leaves along and cutting back […]
Posted on February 15th, 2012 by Kathryn
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Hollyhocks ~Edgar Guest Old-fashioned flowers! I love them all: The morning-glories on the wall, The pansies in their patch of shade, The violets, stolen from a glade, The bleeding hearts and columbine, Have long been garden friends of mine; But memory every summer flocks About a clump of hollyhocks. The mother loved them years ago; […]
Posted on August 29th, 2011 by Kathryn
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For three summers now I’ve relished building a profitable relationship with a wild blackberry that insists on growing up through a nandina planted on a sunny side of the house. Fearful of what it might do should it get out of hand, I have religiously cut it back at the end of each season, and […]
Posted on June 17th, 2011 by Kathryn
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