Dec 3, 2010 | Grateful Gardeners Book Club, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – December 3 In preparation for tomorrow’s GardenLine interview, I was reading Duane Campbell’s book The Best of Green Space: 30 Years of Composted Columns. Although Duane may, tongue-in-cheek, view these as composted, I’d...
Dec 2, 2010 | Life's Gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – December 2 I received a catalog from Uncommon Goods in the mail today. This is welcome at this time of year because I usually buy several Hanukkah/Christmas/New Year’s gifts from these folks. One offering has left me a bit...
Dec 1, 2010 | Inspiration, Life's Gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – December 1 There are many reasons that I love being a member of The Garden Writers Association, but among them is the opportunity to visit other gardens. Every year the GWA has an annual symposium in a different area of the...
Nov 30, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 30 I got a package of amaryllis bulbs from White Flower Farm today. They were sent as a thank you for having Barbara Pierson, the nursery manager, on GardenLine recently. It was a nice surprise, and got me thinking...
Nov 29, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 29 The score so far is Squirrels: 4, My Husband: 0. And before I explain I should acknowledge that every gardener loves a challenge. We want to produce the first ripe tomato in our region, cultivate tropical plants...
Nov 28, 2010 | Inspiration, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From An Opinionated Gardener
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 28 Once again a post from Lois has stimulated my thinking. In her comment two days ago, she said that her philosophy of Cultivating The Inner Gardener “evolved from trying to figure out what the X-factor was in...