Hello Friends! I’ve been away on vacation. I went on a long trip far away to my garden and it was magnificent. Every morning instead of going to work after breakfast, I put on my garden clothes and spent 2-3 hours playing in the dirt. Then I’d come in, shower, have a little snack and …
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There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example--where had they gone? … On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of robins, catbirds, doves, jays, wrens, and scores of other bird voices there was now no sound; only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring …
Ah Friends, it's been an emotional sort of week. We are in moderate drought here at the moment. The garden is suffering in spite of James and I watering it; we can't water enough. New Cherry Tree has only ever made very tiny leaves and I don't know if these leaves are enough for them …
The garden is planted but that doesn’t mean there isn’t still lots to keep me busy. Like two weeks ago the maple seeds started falling. That means I collected a big bowl and then James and I spent a couple hours removing the seeds and getting sore fingers in the process. All for half a …
Lily-of-the-valley, indestructible While Professor Plum has survived and is growing by the day, there have been some garden casualties. One of the black currants had begun leafing out a little early during the April heat wave and when it got cold again a few days later, all of the little buds died. I’ve been hoping …
