Jun 4, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 4 I’m planting like crazy this year: perennials, shrubs, groundcovers and annuals. Yummy, healthy plants go into the soil that I’ve loosened and amended, and I water them in. I place them in the ground with great hope and optimism… yet I...
Jun 3, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 3 Writing this blog has given me the opportunity to begin see the common threads that run from the garden and through all other aspects of life. Everything is connected to everything else. This evening I walked around the garden with my...
Jun 2, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens
Report From PIA – June 2 People come into the garden center wanting a shrub that blooms six months a year, and I think, “Why on earth would you want that?” As plants come into flower and then go out of bloom, I appreciate that their changeability keeps me awake....
Jun 1, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 1 I put one of my favorite tall plants, Persicaria polymorpha, in the entry garden, and placed an equally high Iris siberica next to it. This arrangement comes close, but isn’t perfect. There needs to be a third plant, place to the right...
May 31, 2010 | Garden Prayer, growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 31 Tomorrow is June 1st. Every year at this time I remember my friend Cia telling me that someone she knew hated June because “it’s so green.” Although I don’t dislike June (too green?) I agree that this month is an in-your-face,...
May 30, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 30 There is an old gardener’s saying that goes, “You prune when the shears are sharp.” In other words, when you get around to it. I thought of this on Friday when I was at our community garden plot. As I aimed the hose at the potatoes, I...
