For someone who loves flowers as much as I do, going to the California Spring Trials can be a surreal experience. It is a trip into the high tech world of germplasm, growth hormones, growth inhibitors, and secret breeding techniques for incredible flowers – that are decidedly not wild.
One of the reasons I blog here at Gardening Gone Wild is to promote wild, natural, uninhibited gardening, much like my own garden, now at the height of the weed season. Wild is OK. We don’t expect perfection. Continue Reading →
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 old patient, than gardening, well, I just wouldn’t believe it.