Oct 28, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 28 I was standing in a consultation client’s yard the other day, and we stood looking at a section next to the south side of her house. The client was a busy woman, who didn’t have much time for gardening, so throughout the entire...
Oct 27, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 27 I was clearing out the veggie garden the other day, pulling up weeds and frosted bean plants. When I reached the middle of the garden, I discovered a row of beets, lost among the wild growth. There weren’t enough beets to feed us for...
Oct 26, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 26 I have a split leaf philodendron (Monstera deliciosa) that came from my mother’s plant, which was a cutting off of the philodendron that my grandmother got in the 1950’s. The plant in my mother’s apartment is much fuller, and clearly...
Oct 25, 2009 | growing the spirit, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 25 When I moved to Poison Ivy Acres, it was pretty much a blank slate. I went about designing my gardens by thinking about these things, in this order: 1. That the gardens make visual sense with the lay of the land and the house that...
Oct 24, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 24 This is what I did in my garden today: I gathered all of the piles of brown peony foliage that I cut out of the lake-side perennial bed yesterday, and loaded them into the garden cart. Then I pulled the cart up to the brush pile and...
Oct 23, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – October 23 This summer, fur balls came to my garden, and I’m not talking about the stuff coughed up by cats. Two nights ago I spoke to a group of Master Gardeners in Rhode Island. As we finished the evening up, they asked what plants I...
