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Where In the World?
Virginia native Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia ~ Lesley Buck, in her beautiful new book, Cutting Back, describes her apprenticeship as a gardener in the gardens of Kyoto. After studying the art of...
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WPC: Twisted Wisteria
~ If you have ever wondered whether plants are aware and know what they are doing, just study a Wisteria vine for a while. Plants are wiser than you may want to believe. This formidable vine grows...
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Sunday Dinner: Precisely
~ “Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes – – I mean the universe – – but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols...
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Blossom XLI: Tradescantia
Tradescantia, spiderwort ~ “Everyday I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one mad. I have such a desire to do everything, my head is bursting with it.” . Claude Monet ~ ~...
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Fabulous Friday: Our Garden Is Full
Black-eyed Susan, Rudbeckia hirta ~ It was just a little goldfinch. Yet I was so delighted to notice it gracefully balanced on a yellow black-eyed Susan flower near the drive, when we returned from...
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Sunday Dinner: Frosted
~ “Be still Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity” . Lao Tzu ~ ~ “Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner...
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Sunday Dinner: Walking Through My Garden, Forever
~ “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you… I could walk through my garden forever.” . Alfred Tennyson ~ ~ “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” . William Shakespeare ~ ~ “We love the...
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Sunday Dinner: Looking Up!
Hibiscus moscheutos ~ “In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning” . Carl Sandburg ~ Salvia coccinea ~ “There is no such thing as a problem without a...
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Six on Saturday: Rain Gardens
Both Caladiums and most ferns appreciate moist soil and can survive for quite a while in saturated soil. Ferns planted in wide strips as ground cover can slow down and absorb run-off from summer...
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Sunday Dinner: Nostalgia II
Colonial Williamsburg 2016 ~ “How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.” . William C. Faulkner ~ Colonial Williamsburg, 2016 ~ “It is strange how we hold on to the...
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