Musings on horticultural therapy and the soothing effects of plants and nature
Creating a new class for my clients at Ann’s Place is exciting and scary at the same time. My latest class is a Spring mash up of St. Patrick’s Day and creating a mason bee B&B. The St.Patrick’s Day exercise is growing shamrocks, which can be defined as wood sorrel (Oxalis acetosella), white clover (Trifolium […]
Forcing branches to flower in late Winter may be the poor man’s bouquet but it doesn’t make it any less lovely. I recently clipped some forsythia and flowering quince (Chaenomeles) for Juana and she arranged them next to some flowers we had purchased the week before.Those flowers are now in the compost heap while the […]
Juana perfectly captures the first snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis) that emerge next to the house. Snow melt!Can Spring be far behind?
In writing A Therapist’s Garden I am grateful to my early readers and, in particular, those with much more serious writing chops who read my book and offered up some kind early words about its content. Here they are and some of their books: Florence Williams @florence999: Her book, The Nature Fix, takes readers around […]
Bucket in hand, I head out for the compost heap. The snow glistens with an icy sheen and I assume that my weight will crunch the snow beneath my feet slightly. But that is not the case. The daily thaw and refreeze cycles that are perfect for sugaring maple (Acer saccharum) trees, creates a rock […]