Oct 14, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 14 Yesterday I wrote about endings and beginnings, and today this subject is right in my face. A frost is predicted tonight, and until this afternoon, I hadn’t yet brought all of my plants inside. So I scrambled around looking for the...
Oct 13, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 13 I really thought that this post would be about fall color…I took photos and organized my thoughts about late-season foliage. But life intervened, and here I am, blogging about endings and beginnings. These three things happened...
Oct 12, 2009 | Garden Celebrations, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 12 This morning we drove home to Poison Ivy Acres. Noah and Wan Yi’s wedding was delightful, and it was nice to stay at the lovely home of Alice & Burt Swersey. Burt gave me several plants from his nursery, causing my husband to claim...
Oct 11, 2009 | Garden Celebrations, growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 11 It is well past midnight and after an evening of dancing, cheering, hugging and tearing up I am too spent to write much except this: to be able to celebrate friends, family, faith, love, and yes, flowers, is such a gift. I’m...
Oct 11, 2009 | Garden Celebrations, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 10 A short post for today: After hosting GardenLine this morning I came home to discover that there was no way we were going to fit all the flowers for the wedding in Dan’s car. He’d picked all of the dahlias and zinnas at our community...
Oct 8, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 8 I can’t imagine that there is a person on this planet that hasn’t sown seeds that failed to germinate. I’m not just talking about seeds that grow into plants, but of all the things we try to grow, in and out of our gardens. A reader...
