As a gardener, you can either love fall, or hate it. more avid gardeners of course know that there is plenty to do in the fall and winter months, especially if you bring the garden indoors. But for those of us who are avid gardeners, or just the casual planter, don’t forget to […]
I was asked not so long ago, what drives me to create, and why I like to garden. I debated about posting an answer to this question for some time. As a blogger, I can pretty much say anything I want about a particular topic, with out constraint. But then comes the […]
Does it ever amaze you how easy it is to grow something? Those of us who spend hours planting, weeding, and watering may disagree, but bear with me for a second. Think back to grade school. Do you remember doing projects where you planted seeds in little round dirt clots, dumped some […]
There doesn’t seem to be much to do in the garden except harvest. This is a silly statement because there is lots to do. Anyone who saw my garden now would wonder at the mess. The tomato plants are flopping all over the pathway because I haven’t tied them to their stakes for quite a […]
I was just looking through some old photos, and came across this one - a picture of Vita Sackville West’s wonderful garden at Sissinghurst. These photos were taken on a trip I took with my family in 2002. A perfect day.
This is a photo taken from the tower, in which Sackville-West used to write her […]
Couldn’t help but notice this wonderful sounding job as a “seed manager”. I’m trying to finish a book at the moment, and admittedly even tidying my sock drawer seems more attractive - nevertheless I am really tempted. Hmmm
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How’s this for a man who understood gardening? This is from “Leaves of Grass” the wonderful epic poem by the famous Walt Whitman. I love it.
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(from “Song of Myself” by Walt Whitman)
Something startles me where I thought I was safest;
I withdraw from the still woods I loved;
I will not go now on the pastures […]
People have been suggesting to me recently that I must know more about gardening than I pretend.
I don’t think this is true, but I suppose it is not the kind of thing on which a judgement can sensibly be made. When the amount to be known is infinite, we are all ignorant no matter […]
Put your tomatoes in the ground on Grand Final Day, (mid Spring here in Melbourne) and harvest the first ones in time for the Christmas table. Well, we didn’t quite make it, but today we picked our first fully formed, perfect, glossy skinned tomatoes. There were a few earlier ones, it is true, but the […]
How does one become a gardener? I should say at the outset that although I harbor a strong and mostly secret belief that gardening is what life is really all about, I am not a real gardener. I cannot tell you the common names of many plants, let alone their botanical names. My garden is […]
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