I always forget how busy this time of year is in the garden. The season is definitely changing—shorter days, a different quality of light, a new smell to the air, and cooler nights even though days are sometimes still pretty warm. In the “old days” our average first frost date was October 8th, these days …
Garden Gone Feral
Part of the feral garden It is the time of the season when the garden has gone feral, relieving me of all illusions that I ever had any control over anything. At first I feel horror, what sort of terrible gardener am I to allow such wanton wildness? The glossy pages of a garden magazine …
Reading and Gardening
Morning glories behind my sun scorched honeyberry I got a second COVID booster Friday afternoon and I expected the side effects would be very much like the last booster—sore arm, headache, and really tired for about 36 hours. So I was super surprised that after the headache I got vertigo. It wasn’t bad. As long …
Always a Beginner
For all the years I have grown a garden, at home when I was a kid, on a sunny balcony in containers, in my own little slice of urban yard, I have learned a lot, mostly by trial and error but also through reading and talking to people. And I know there is so much …
For the Birds
I have not managed to make the time to write a proper post this weekend, but that's ok. It's good to do the things that need to be done when they need to be done, like write a letter to an old friend who needs some kind words, or go grocery shopping, or talk on …
