Musings on horticultural therapy and the soothing effects of plants and nature
Santa and relatives were very good to me this year as I received a surfeit of books and tools for the garden. One of the books, Wicked Plants by Amy Stewart, was a real eye opener as I never realized how dangerous and deadly are many of the plants that reside in our garden. I […]
This is the longest stretch I have not been blogging since I started this endeavor almost six months ago. It has not been for lack of topics but rather lack of time as the Christmas season can easily consume any spare moments. Making preparations for Santa more than makes up for the time I get […]
It seems as if Mother Nature wants we Northeasterners to no longer think of gardening as she continues to drop the white stuff our way. We shouldn’t feel singled out, however, as many areas of the U.S. have been dumped on earlier than is characteristic. After breakfast I went outside in a light rain to […]
We went to get our Christmas tree this past weekend but before we left we got a two-inch blast of snow that left a clear coat of white over the garden and the rest of the yard. So before the snow arrived I took one last tour of the garden to see if there had […]