When the current issue of The American Gardener from the American Horticultural Society arrived I immediately read about my friend Neil Diboll of Prairie Nursery fame and saw the You Tube interview. And then a nice story by Duncan Brine about naturalistic gardening. With apologies to fellow GG Wild blogger Debra Lee Baldwin, I did [...]
What we see and what we capture with the camera are often different; too often if you are not careful to photograph with intent. What my mind’s eye sees when I enter my garden this time of year are yellow daffodils. But actually there are only a very few. In my mind’s eye I am [...]
Every year I garden in Northern California I am dumbstruck in November. I do not have the words to describe what season this is. I put together a hasty bouquet yesterday while tidying up my home office for a client meeting in hopes that some flowers might distract from the piles of books, files, and [...]
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 [...]
Well, I have returned to active duty here at GGW after a rare and most pleasant summer vacation. I went to New York City with only my point and shoot camera, not expecting any gardens – but I guess my eye can’t help but find flower subjects. These daisies sprouted up overnight in the neighborhood [...]