Grow this plant and your garden will look exactly like this! (Yah, right… ) [ Right: Image of Echium wildpretii by Mataparda. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. ] I’ve got to be… Read More »getting real
I quoted recently from Robert Pogue Harrison’s recent Gardens: An Essay on the Human Condition. Here are a couple more passages that I liked. …[I]n the final analysis we must always remember that nature has its own order and that… Read More »more thoughts about gardens
Are gardeners more humble people? Do we know things a lot of others don’t or believe in things others choose not to believe? Here are a couple thoughts for Earth Day, the first one a soft feather bed of a… Read More »those arrogant humans…
There’s an old family photo that I think about every now and then. My sister and I are seated at a viewpoint overlooking the lower falls on the Yellowstone River. My sister is staring into the camera and at my… Read More »and so it begins