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Report From PIA – November 20 I have a horrible head cold, so I’m not up to the thought that writing requires. Perhaps, you are thinking, this is a blessing. I can, however, spend a couple of minutes trolling through photo files looking for inspiration, and it didn’t take me long to settle on this [...]
Report From PIA – November 19 You know how you can go for years without being aware of a particular plant, word, product, or person, and suddenly, once you find out about it/him/her, you see this plant, word or name everywhere? It’s like the time six years ago that my brother-in-law-once-removed, John Korman, asked me [...]
Report From PIA – November 18 I got a tweet from landscape designer Duncan Brine the other day, commenting that I am on a “philosophical roll” here at Whole Life Gardening. Duncan’s twitter name is @GardenLarge, and I like his grand approach to gardening. Duncan does garden large. On his website he says “Nature is [...]
Report From PIA – November 17 Every once in awhile, I’ll go through the photographs in my files, not searching for anything in particular, but just looking to see what’s there. Invariably, I’ll see something that gives me an idea. Maybe it’s a plant that I don’t know, or have forgotten about, or a clever [...]
Report From PIA – November 16 Does being a gardener mean you’re better able to accept change? Please, God, let it be true. I spent the entire day with elderly neighbors, driving off-Cape to pick them up, then driving them back to the Cape to visit another assisted living facility, then returning them back across [...]
Report From PIA – November 15 If you’re a gardener, being in the present means focusing on the current moment, while keeping a foot in the past and an eye to the future. This sounds like a balancing act, but really it’s just a matter of taking care of seasonal business. The Past: I finished [...]
Report From PIA – November 14 I was speaking to a woman the other day who is the mother of a three-month-old child. She was talking about the difficulty of getting her son to sleep, and I said, in an offhanded way, “Well, I wish when my first child was born, I knew that how [...]
Report From PIA – November 13 I worked at the garden center today, and at one point I went up to the office, where I found Nanette on the telephone. She turned to me as I walked in and asked if I could help the caller. It seemed that a cake maker was on the [...]
Report From PIA – November 12 I worked at the garden center today, and on my lunch break I drove to the bank while eating my lunch and listening to a book on CD. I ate, got the banking done, and heard two chapters in 20 minutes. I was doing several things at once, and [...]
Report From PIA – November 11 Although it’s been a mild fall, there is no doubt that winter is coming. We cleared the cutting garden this week and dug the dahlias…crates of tubers went into the garden shed to dry out before I pack them in newspapers and put them in storage until spring. The [...]
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