Author: Lisa Cobb

Public health nerd, gardener, mom, and bookworm blogging about the world of work.

A friend returns

The bat is back. I hope of course, that it is the bats, plural, that area back. It is the … More

Truly Spring

The daffodils are blooming, as are the camellias. The camellias are more brown than pink this year, due to the … More

A Long Winter’s End

There are crocuses blooming in the snow, and daffodils in bud. Plants, surely, have some inside information that this long … More

An old friend

What does it say when a garden blogger hasn’t blogged in six months?  Nothing good about the garden, I can … More

Espalier Update

The espalier pears are growing, thankfully.  I was worried I had taken off too much, and that they would die. … More

Surprised, Again

Those little white bells along their green stems are perfuming my living room, along with a vase of white and … More

Garden Junkie

Gardening, chocolate, and coffee.  I crave them all right now, in about equal measure.  There is a proposal due, a … More

Little jewels

Sometimes it all works exactly as you had hoped it would.

Repose

Noble Otis It was 65 degrees yesterday, and after a half hour of puttering in the garden I decided to … More