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Report From PIA – March 1
Hello everyone, C.L.’s son Sasha here.
C.L. is in the hospital for something minor and once she is out the posting will resume.
You know that flexability thing she is always talking about? Well she says this is an opportunity for her to walk her talk.
Report From PIA – January 9
When hosting GardenLine on Saturday mornings, I usually surf the web during commercial and news breaks. Sometimes I’m looking for plants (a hortaholic’s habit) and occasionally I’m searching for interesting tidbits to share with my listeners.
Today I googled January Gardening Tips, and as you might imagine, the lists for cold [...]
Report From PIA – October 5
Those who come to this blog for thoughtful musings will please forgive me today because I’m about to gush about a plant. Yes, it’s an all-out OMG-isn’t-this-flower-outrageously-gorgeous plant rave.
I’m nuts about dahlias, the queens of October in my late-to-frost-seaside region. All of these annuals are fantastic right now, and thank [...]
When I was in high school in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, I tried out for the girls modern dance group. I prepared an energetic and rather disjointed routine done to “Grant Avenue”, a song from the musical “Flower Drum Song”. After weeks of practice in my basement, I performed it for the audition. It wasn’t pretty.
High [...]
People in the horticultural business have a saying: Color sells. By color, they mean the flowers, and they’re saying that a plant in bloom sells best. Many customers choose their landscaping when the plants are blossoming… when they’re shopping, they go for the flowers first.
Although this tendency insures that the right flower color is chosen, [...]
Late July is my time for adding to, and subtracting from, the flower garden. Although most people in this area seem to plant annuals only though the first week in June, I am placing them in the garden this weekend.
By mid-summer many of the biennials and a few of the perennials are dying back. The [...]
I arrived home from Paris last evening and the first thing I did was walk around the garden. Being gone for ten days in the growing season is double-edged hoe, so to speak. A garden changes daily, but when I am there to observe those changes they don’t seem very drastic or dramatic.
If I leave [...]
Although it was warm enough for me to plant peas and lettuce this weekend, the temperatures nose-dived today, keeping me out of the garden. I had a garden consultation scheduled for this morning and yes, I froze, but after that it was a good day to take care of errands and cross things off my [...]
Years ago when I was working as an artist, I had a show of my collages at a local gallery. One of the attendees stood studying the pieces, then turned to me and said, “It must be a lot like cooking.”
His comment was spot on. [...]
My first experience with mail order was in the mid-1950’s. In the back of my mother’s magazines I saw a small ad that read, “100 Dolls for $1.00!” A hundred dolls for only a dollar… this was deal that I could not pass up. I found an envelope, put my crumpled dollar bill into it, [...]
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