SOW A (FIGURATIVE) SEED
An Oasis
It’s not the time of year to inspire most of us gardeners to sow a seed, but sow I will, a figurative seed in your imagination. Who knows what reality it may grow into?
As the weather turns increasingly cool, then cold, and the landscape becomes washed over in gray and brown, imagine a retreat, an oasis of lush greenery and bright colored flowers suffused in warm, moist air. A greenhouse.
Greenhouse at the Nearing’s Forest Farm
A CART FOR ALL SEASONS . . . AND GARDENS
What is It?
Praise is in order for an unsung hero of my garden — my garden cart. I’m serious. This cart has played a fundamental role in the pleasures my garden has offered to numerous eyes, noses, and mouths.
Cart use in China, 1980’s
Let’s first be clear on just what implement I’m talking about. Read more
OF BULBS, BULBILS, BULBLETS, AND CORMS
Admission
I’ve admitted to this addiction before and I’ll do it again. I’ll even hope you become addicted. You are forewarned.
My addiction is to propagating plants. No harm done, you say? How about all the plants that you become inundated with. Perhaps you plant them; that can be overdone. Give them away, please. Or sell them.
Anyway, here goes another wrinkle on plant propagation. You are forewarned!
What’s in Your Hand?
You’ve perhaps bought some spring flowering bulbs for planting. Wait! Before you drop all those tulip, daffodil, crocus, and hyacinth bulbs into holes in the ground Read more
