I have posted this note from the WaterKeeper Organization (they’ve targeted garden writers and you’ll see it posted all over the Net on different garden blogs/sites in the next few weeks). I have also asked the Louisiana Forestry Assoc and their Secondary Producers Trade Association for comments and responses. (more…)
I’d like to make a deal with you and I’m going to need your help with it.
You see, I’ve just spent three months in a warmer climate than Canada and while this is the perk of being a writer with a laptop, it also comes with a price tag.
In this case, I was only able to watch U.S. television. It was a fascinating process but essentially a negative one. And it’s taken me 3 months to get a handle on this thought. (more…)
Earth Hour is coming up on Saturday, March 29. We’re going to ask you all to shut down your power - all of it - for one hour beginning at 8pm and ending at 9pm.
It’s a small thing but watch this video to get the impact. (more…)
I just signed off from a web seminar put on for the media and featuring speakers on water management in the garden. Let me summarize what I took away from the event. (more…)
I confess I cheated a little bit with this picture. It really isn’t in my garden at home but in the garden where I happen to be at the moment. (more…)
It seems a proper time of year to be talking about how to grow Shamrocks. And the good news is that you’re going to have a ton of choices about this charming (but potentially invasive in Southern climates) plants. To begin with the wood-sorrel family contains about 900 species of these plants - from annuals to perennials - from rhizomes to bulbs. (more…)
The Net is awash right now with all the helpful hints (mostly from female bloggers I note) that we should all get ourselves ready for gardening by getting fit. (more…)
Ah gentle readers, don’t do this to the garden design you so truly love. I’ve visited two flower shows in the last few weeks and there is a plague let loose on the land. With the popularization of the garden as indoor/outdoor room - an extension of the house kind of thing, we have a serious influx of really, really bad garden design.
It used to be that a person couldn’t really make a garden design mistake (more…)
There are two plants I want but can’t have (more…)
I usually write notes to myself first thing in the morning. It’s my writer’s way of getting my act in gear, of sorting out and getting rid of the “stuff” in my life so I can get on with finding words. This morning I got thinking about stars in the sky. And while the process of getting to the question was a little longer, the bottom line question was, “Why do I need stars in the sky?”.
I mean, really - do they have any measurable impact on my life? They’re quite a goodly distance away - tiny pinpricks in a clear night sky.
And after first dismissing stars as having any value to me, a few seconds later I changed my mind. I decided that.. (more…)
