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...
Mar 31, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 31 I am watching the buds on my trees closely, because they can indicate the hatching of one of this area’s nemeses, the winter moth caterpillar. Soon they will emerge and start eating our maples, blueberries, apples, oaks and other...
Mar 30, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 30 Today was too stormy to work in the garden, but I could have used some meditative weeding, that’s for sure. Did you ever have a day that seems to have a theme to it? Say the morning starts with the carton of eggs falling out of the...
