Last weekend I took my mom to the American Horticultural Society’s annual plant sale at George Washington’s old country digs,…
A Cold Spring
Has there been a spring this slow to warm? If so I don’t remember it. Easter has come and gone…
What’s In A Name?
I planted Cardinal Flower for the hummingbirds, thinking nothing more of the name than that the flower was bound to…
Old Ben Davis
How many years have I grown apples without ever eating one? I hope this year breaks the curse. I have…
I Finally Find Birds
It isn’t like I never liked birds, before. I just didn’t find them worth watching, unlike, say, a slowly developing flower…
Escape into the Garden
It seems there is no end to the ugliness in the news this summer. Police brutalizing and killing black people,…
New Paths
One warm-ish day in February I decided that what we really needed was a gravel path between the driveway and…
