Apr 6, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 6 Today I was blessed to be able to sit on my deck with my laptop, and write this while listening to the birds singing their spring songs. The sound of the morning doves cooing takes me back to my childhood in Muncie, Indiana, and the...
Apr 5, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 5 We have lived at Poison Ivy Acres for two years, one-and-a-half months, and I’m already moving plants around, correcting mistakes. My mistakes. Yesterday I wrote about removing the creeping Jenny from the rain garden, and today I dug up...
Apr 4, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 4 Two years ago, when we made the rain garden, I saw that the bare soil in this new bed was a problem. The dirt and assorted debris from the surface would wash away with every rainfall, and despite my best efforts, the weed seeds...
Apr 3, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 3 On a recent garden writer’s listserv, the topic that generated a great deal of discussion carried the subject line, “Is Gardening Too Complicated?” The premise the author presented asked if garden writers, with their...
Apr 2, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 2 I’m giving a talk on Hydrangeas tomorrow, so Cape Cod’s favorite plant is on my mind. We love them because they have big, bold flowers. We also find them irresistible because many are blue, blue, blue, an uncommon color when it comes to...
Apr 1, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 1 Sometimes it takes awhile to attain a certain level of understanding…but I maintain that it’s worth the wait. I now know that the bunches of seedlings I see throughout my garden, the greedy blue jays, and the random sunflowers in my...
