Aug 19, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – August 19 OK, so we know that daily blogging isn’t a shortcut to weight loss and wealth. Ditto gardening. But there are parallels to be drawn between writing a daily blog, tending a garden and cultivating life. Here are a few things I’m...
Jun 4, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – June 4 I’m planting like crazy this year: perennials, shrubs, groundcovers and annuals. Yummy, healthy plants go into the soil that I’ve loosened and amended, and I water them in. I place them in the ground with great hope and optimism… yet I...
Apr 5, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 5 We have lived at Poison Ivy Acres for two years, one-and-a-half months, and I’m already moving plants around, correcting mistakes. My mistakes. Yesterday I wrote about removing the creeping Jenny from the rain garden, and today I dug up...
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...
Jan 5, 2010 | growing the spirit, Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – January 5 Anyone who’s been gardening for more than three years has experienced failure. I don’t care how many green thumbs a person has, at some point there will be plants that sulk or die. When we garden, we grow catastrophes, fiascos and...