It has been 3 weeks since I posted to my blog. I have the blog blahs. Thank goodness I am not a professional writer who must write, inspired or not. Or maybe if I were a professional writer it would be easier to get into the habit of writing something so simple and unconditional as[...]
My friend, Janet, has a wonderfully complex garden full of interesting plants she has acquired from years as a garden writer and plant docent. She recently told me she and her Mom make an annual New Year’s Day plant count and have found in a mild winter she has many as 60 plants in bloom.[...]
Office work has been unrelenting recently, but last Saturday, with an impending storm I could no longer put off fertilizing my rhododendron garden. It began as a chore and instantly became ecstatic. O the joy! Thanks Walt Whitman. As I walked down to the garden in the cool cloudy morning with 2 bags of fertilizer[...]
What makes a good garden photo ? I get asked this every time I make a presentation and often feign ignorance, not simply out of coy self-effacement but because there are so many potential answers. Well then, how do you, mr. professional, take good photos ? I dunno, I just point my camera at what[...]
In my October 22 entry, in my haste to show off the first “spring” narcissus in my garden I included the first Camellia flower of the season too. I said it was C. sasanqua ‘Cleopatra’ and one reader commented it did not look like what she expected. It was mis-labeled. Camellia sasanqua ‘Apple Blossom’ Here[...]