Mar 23, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 23 At a recent talk I showed an image of Dave and Judy Roger’s garden. With a business name of Art In Green, you know that their property will be beautiful and it is. Much of it is also very low-maintenance because the plantings are so...
Mar 22, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 22 I heard a story on a New York radio station today about how JetBlue has decided to keep its headquarters in New York. The spokesman being interviewed said that there were good opportunities for “co-branding” with New York City....
Mar 21, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 21 I raked, weeded and trimmed down perennial beds today, and was always alert for a subject to write about. As I’ve said before, one of the gifts of daily blogging is the need to my antennae up at all times. In the garden and a blog, you...
Mar 20, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 20 At 5:32 PM, the spring equinox, I was outside finishing some garden cleanup. As I cut down some of last year’s perennial stalks and grasses, the first two of Barry Commoner’s Four Laws of Ecology ran through my head. “Everything is...
Mar 19, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 19 Today’s garden speaks to me about taking risks and taking charge. It was an usually warm, sunny day today… the type of weather that makes us think that spring has positively arrived. It is a tease, of course, but we gardeners took...
Mar 18, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – March 18 It was standing room only tonight at Highfield Hall, and I was pleased that so many people came out for my talk, Becoming A Better Gardener. One of my points was that we are sometimes well served to start small. There are some plants...