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Garden Variety
"'There's nowhere left to plant' is not an uncommon cry and, ironically, the larger the garden, the worse that problem can be." --Joy Larkcom, Creative Vegetable Gardening,
Photo credit: Flickr/biofriendlyGarden Variety will be away for a few days....
Try as we may, there will be failures. Moving a plant to another part of the garden sometimes makes all the difference, but enough is enough: getting a garden together requires a measure of ruthlessness." --Pamela J. Harper, “Designing with Perennials”,
"April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain." --T.S. Eliot, "The Waste Land"
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses." --Abraham Lincoln
“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” --Iris Murdoch
For those who consider fall leaves nothing but a bother, take a minute to view the whimsy of illustrator Christoph Niemann's "Bio-diversity" in the New York Times.
Photo credit: AP (file photo 2008)Friday, 8 to 10 p.m. "Ladies Night," Homestead Gardens, Davidsonville. Potted paperwhite giveaway.Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. "Poinsettia Tour," Homestead Gardens, Davidsonville. T...
"The Best Plants Come with a Story." --Maria Rodale in Organic Gardening Magazine, June/July 2006
There is a great pleasure in working in the soil, apart from the ownership of it. The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. -- author unknown
Baltimore Sun file photoI found my neighbor Bob just outside my picket fence the other day, using his leaf blower in reverse - sucking up, and chopping up, the leaves my husband had swept into the street...
If you have been conscientious enough to install a rain barrel to collect the rain the pours off of your roof, now is the time to put it away for the winter.That's the advice of Shawna Coronado, who blogs at GardeningNude. (Ok...
I was scrounging in garden centers for bargains when I was ambushed by a display of paperwhites.The pretty white flowers gleamed on the dark green box, and the price wasn't much. About the same as a couple of lattes.So I bought some.I have only ever forced a bulb once...
Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. -- Celia Thaxter
Beautiful blooms are not the only subjects for the garden photographer.Layanee DeMerchant, author of the garden blog Ledge and Gardens, clearly understands that...
