Sing it Carly! “Anticipation, anticipation/Is making me late/Is keeping me waiting.” Maybe Carly Simon was a horticulturist, because it strikes me lately that no one knows more about anticipation than a gardener. If you told me there’s any pursuit that is more about delayed gratification, about waiting for green dreams to be realized, about being just plain[...]
Text and photos © Catherine Renzi Many September gardens are waning, preparing for dormancy after festive summer partying with exciting colors and fragrances. But, September is also a time of new beginnings; Autumn begins in September, and a new academic year begins for students of all ages. For me, each year begins anew with my[...]
Nan writes: We welcome a new Guest Contributor this month: Lee Reich, PhD. Lee has long been a presence in the garden-writing world and has a number of books to his credit, among them my personal favorite, Uncommon Fruits Worthy of Attention, and the new Landscaping with Fruit. You can find out more about Lee[...]
Last month I started my seasonal orange bender. It being the color of all kinds of wonderful things, from mangoes to sunsets to campfire embers. I can’t get enough of it–in the garden or elsewhere. So I shared some of my favorite flowers and promised a return to the topic with a post on good[...]
Okay, I know, I know. You either love orange or you hate it. It’s hard to be indifferent to a color as rollicking as this one. In case you were wondering, yes, the color orange takes its name from the fruit. The moniker comes from a sanskrit word, naranja, which is what the fruit was called in South[...]