Jun 13, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 13 Are there plants in your garden that make your heart soar? Just a glance at the flowers or foliage make you smile, right? This is how I feel about my Salix ‘Hakuro Nishiki’, the dappled willow. The new foliage is most striking in early...
May 8, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love
Report From PIA – May 8 When I was in the third grade my father told my brother and me that he would pay us a penny for every dandelion we dug out of the lawn. We went to work with enthusiasm, feeling rich from the get-go, because at that time in the 1950’s a...
Nov 27, 2008 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, products I love
It is Thanksgiving morning and as I drink my coffee I watch the birds crowd into the feeder. Cardinals, morning doves and a titmouse take turns with the blue jays. We have lots of blue jays. Just below the birdfeeder, four crows walk up the grass path from the lake,...