Sep 10, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 10 Here I am, ten days into my desire to explore how my garden is connected to everything else, and I’m already impatient. This morning I wrote down what I wanted to accomplish today, and it was an impossibly long list. According to...
Sep 9, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 9 The world would be a different place if everyone gardened. To plant a garden is to become skilled at leaps of faith, adaptability and good humor in the face of disaster. This year the weather in the Northeast was cool and rainy,...
Sep 8, 2009 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 8 My husband gave me a card today that quotes Nelson Eddy: “We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in-between we garden.” Nicely put, Nelson! Today, I was planting like crazy, but not in the ground. I sent an article to a...
Sep 7, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, plants I love, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 7 Today my garden was telling me to slow the hell down. I tried to take some video (dipping back into Final Cut Pro after a few years off) but nothing was going right. I felt self-conscious, my nose was running and I was cranky,...
Sep 6, 2009 | Life's Gardens, plants I hate, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 6 When I was a teenager I used to read the copies of my mother’s Ladies Home Journal. I’d pour over a column titled “Can this marriage be saved?” and wonder about the couples featured there. Why is he unable to bend, I’d wonder, and...
Sep 5, 2009 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – September 5 Paths are of prime importance in a garden. They are functional, yes, a way to get from one part of the property to the other, and a means of carrying new plants in and weeds out. Paths are important in the design of a garden as...
