Musings on horticultural therapy and the soothing effects of plants and nature
Leaving one’s garden as it is coming into its own is a bittersweet event filled with mixed emotions. I now pack for a lengthy and hopefully exotic stay on a beach in Kauai. After spending the last half year in dormancy and now bursting out in full bloom, my garden calls out with the most […]
I know how Noah must have felt. The Northeast has had a spring that makes the Northwest look like the Sahara Desert as we have had fewer days of sun than I have fingers. Most folks I talk with hate this weather and its associated gloom and dampness. Few plants are coming out with the […]
One of the things that has often struck me about gardening articles and literature is that the end result is always a wonderful plant or the perfect fruit. A rose, a peach, a melon. You know what I mean. A few years ago William Alexander wrote a book on his gardening exploits and wound up […]