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Report From PIA – January 21 Today I roasted a 30 pound turkey so that we can take it to my mother-in-law’s 90th birthday party. (Shhhhhhh! It’s a suprise!) It was so heavy that I could hardly haul it out of the hot oven without burning myself, and as I tottered toward the counter the [...]
Report From PIA – January 20 I can make more compost and gardens, but I can’t make more time. This is a shame, because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Plant breeders should forget about trying to develop a blue rose and concentrate on a Time Tree. Now there is a trillion dollar plant. [...]
Report From PIA – January 19 I started out the morning with one of those irritable exchanges that married people sometimes have. My husband was annoyed about the grapes being not being good, and said something cross since I was the one who purchased them. This made me prickly, and I responded with bad-temper. “You [...]
Report From PIA – January 18 I’m about to place my seed orders, and as I look through the catalogs, I come across names of plants that I’ve tried to grow in years past. While I’ve had good success with the majority of my seed sowing, still, there have been many plants that just didn’t [...]
Report From PIA – January 17 I gave a talk at Country Garden today, about great plants for Cape Cod. Throughout this presentation I spoke about the importance of putting a plant in a situation that it will grow well. The right plant in the right place, we garden communicators say. Basically, right plant /right [...]
Report From PIA – January 16 We were up in Newton, MA today for Irene Galdston’s memorial service. It was everything such an occasion should be: sad, honest, funny, touching, and loving. I read one of her poems, which I think you will appreciate. Spring It’s spring! I open wide my sleep-soaked eyes, To view [...]
Report From PIA – January 15 It was in the mid-forties today, and the snow began disappearing. The ice on the driveway that I’ve so carefully stepped across when walking The Dog is gone…yes! It’s not the end of winter, and there are still white mounds where the shoveling and plowing piled snow after the [...]
Report From PIA – January 14 I received two plant catalogs this week, one from Heronswood, and one from Plant Delights Nursery. I put the former aside, and immediately opened the latter. Truthfully, I can hardly bear to look at the Heronswood catalog since it is no longer being written by one of Heronswood’s former [...]
Report From PIA – January 13 I’ve been tagged! A Yard & A Half Landscaping, over at A Blog & A Half, has tagged me with The Honest Scrap Award. The rules are that if you’ve been tagged, you list 10 honest things about yourself, then tag seven other bloggers to play along. Why would [...]
Report From PIA – January 12 I’ve been having an email conversation with Lois se Vries, another garden writer who is interested in cultivating a meaningful life, beginning in the garden. I’m pleased to hear about her blog, and wish her well…the more of us that write and speak about whole life gardening, the more [...]
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