As The Blooms Fade
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter. ~ Carol Bishop Hipps Our first freeze was Saturday morning. The temp dipped...
View ArticleHealing Rain
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane. ~Robert Frost This...
View ArticleA Last Gasp In the Garden
“Walked for half an hour in the garden. A fine rain was falling, and the landscape was that of autumn. The sky was hung with various shades of gray, and mists hovered about the distant mountains – a...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-January 2013
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” Marcel Proust The views of my garden from early December to the end of December are very...
View ArticleThey Never Showed Up For The Dance
“You do not fail in life, you only produce results, and you have the right to learn and grow from any results that you produce.” ~Wayne Dyer As I was perusing my garden photos, I noticed many...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-February 2013
Why does my heart leap at a sunny day in January and my thoughts turn to seed catalogues? Because it’s in my blood. ~Colleen Plimpton Indeed in January here in the snowy regions of the US we do...
View ArticleCuriosity on Bloom Day
What gardener doesn’t live for the morning when that first seedling pops through the moist soil? And what gardener hasn’t been disappointed by a seed that never sprouted? ~Deborah L. Martin Make no...
View ArticleSilent Spring
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-June 2013
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” - Virgil Well May has been a brutal month at work...
View ArticleGrow Great Grub
Everyone loves good food. Fresh, tasty, nutritious food is our birthright. And what better way to have great food than to grow it yourself? ~Charlie Nardozzi One of the most important things in...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-July 2013
And since all this loveliness cannot be heaven, I know in my heart it is June. Abba Goold Woolson June was a spectacular month for the garden as everything was growing albeit a bit behind except...
View ArticleFinding A New Path
“Do the best you can in the place where you are.” ~Unknown Today was to be a special day. I was to be retired from my career in public education, and my mom was to be visiting me for several...
View ArticleProtect Your Garden
A rule to remember when dealing with garden pests: if it is slowing-moving, stamp on it; if it is fast-moving, leave it alone-it will probably kill something else. ~Esme Boughey One of the areas...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-September 2013
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. ~ William Arthur Ward August flew by in a blur. It was a grueling month at work where I...
View ArticleGarden Lessons On a Bloom Day
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ~Gertrude Jekyll The final bloom day of summer is...
View ArticleGardener’s Guide to Frost
“When everything that ticked has stopped, And space stares, all around, Or grisly frosts, first autumn morns, Repeal the beating ground.” - Emily Dickinson I had scheduled this book review months...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-October 2013
“By all these lovely tokens September days are here With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.” - Author Unknown It was hard to say goodbye to September. The days rushed by, and...
View ArticleWater Gardening
If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water. - Jan Erik Vold, What All The World Knows When I roughly designed my current...
View ArticleGardens Eye Journal-January 2014
“We do not learn from our experiences; we learn by reflecting on our experiences.” ~John Dewey As I said in last week’s post, this year will be a time of observing and reflecting on my garden. So...
View ArticleHelping Out A Fellow Gardener
“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.” ~Norman Vincent Peale No this is not my house, but aren’t those...
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