Okay! A few more tour dates for you. See you out there? Go here if you want to see everything that’s coming up. And as always, check these venues for full details. April 24 2013 — Culinary Arts & Letters, Chapel Hill, NC Special cocktail event with The Crunkleton and Fearrington Inn. April 27 [...]
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Thoughts about our garden. “We desire,” the Emporer dictated, “that in the garden there should be all kinds of plants.” Charlemagne the Gre. […]
Body: posted by Holly Scoggins Of course we want to buy locally-grown plants! There are a gazillion sound reasons to do so. In a paper that may be f. […]
While reading the latest issue of Better Homes and Gardens, I stumbled upon a new (to me) trend in outdoor living: Outdoor Televisions! Phew! It’s. […]
Yes, I am still on the road! It’s hard to believe, I know. I can hardly believe it myself. So here are some tour dates, and the complete list, if you’d like to see it, is here. As always, check details with the venue before heading out. April 17...
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourWhy, yes! It’s another week of Drunken Botanist tour dates? Are you out there, Milwaukee people? Miami people? Austin? Phoenix? Well, if you’re interested, all the tour dates are here, and as always, check with the venue to confirm event details before heading out. April 10 2013 07:00...
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And on it goes! All Drunken Botanist tour dates are listed here, but this is what I’ve got going on this week. Please do check details with the venue before heading out. And then–please do head out! I’d love to see you. And you. All of you, really. ...
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If you’re in Portland, Seattle, or Bellingham, I’d love to see you this week. All the tour dates are online here, but this week’s stops include: March 27 2013 07:30 PM — Powell’s (Burnside location), Portland, OR With a special appearance by House Spirits Distillery‘s Christian Krogstad, who...
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourVodka week? Isn’t every week vodka week? Yeah, well. I’m still hanging out on the West Coast, so if you’re in the neighborhood, I hope you’ll drop by. Complete list of tour dates can be found here, and please do check with the venue before heading out in case...
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Okay, folks! Your devoted correspondent is on a book tour for the next couple of months. I’d love to stay and chat, but instead I’m going to furnish you with a list of tour dates and ask you to come out and fill a seat, badger your friends into...
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One day last year, a mysterious courier arrived at my house. (Okay, the courier was not so very mysterious. She was driving plants to my local garden centers from Oregon-based Log House Plants.) Anyway, she had a special delivery for me from Log House’s owner, Alice Doyle. A crazy-cool...
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Following up on last week’s post about the construction of this here cocktail garden, I’ve got a few more pictures to share, along with some lessons learned. But first, this just in! My bookstore is now taking pre-orders for signed or inscribed copies of The Drunken Botanist. We hope...
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Last week I posted garden designer Susan Morrison’s lovely hand-drawn plans of my cocktail garden, which she designed in response to my desperate plea for help. You can see the final results in the February issue of Sunset magazine, but maybe you’d like to see where we started. Because...
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So! Sunset magazine stopped by a few months ago. It was great fun hanging out with a couple of pros all day and watching them work. (Oh, and there was some mixing of cocktails, too.) Anyway, you can see the results in the February issue of Sunset, which is...
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So last year I planted this cocktail garden. It was a huge undertaking that I wrote not a word about, in part because I was too busy doing it. The space was one of those typically difficult side yards found around a lot of old houses: as little...
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I don’t know what it’s like in your neck of the woods, but around these parts we still have a few good tomatoes left at the farmers market. So that’s what I’m calling this drink–The Farmers Market. Hurry up and make a batch while you still can. The Farmers...
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Can you eat any of the plants in this picture? Really? How do you know? This post from the always excellent Rowley’s Whiskey Forge got me thinking about this. He posts a really cool recipe for a liqueur called mistela de chimajá. I couldn’t resist–I had to go...
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So. Summer is here, and that means that you need to break out the punches. Not that dreadful stuff made with Sprite and sherbet and the worst possible vodka, but a nicely-made, Victorian-style punch, served in that punchbowl you never get to use, or a repurposed pickle jar, or...
Read more in: Drink This, Feed Me, Garden Rant Cocktail HourIt'll be at least a year-possibly more–before my new book is actually printed and in my hands. But it's never too soon for a website, right? So here it is: TheDrunkenBotanist.com, named after my forthcoming book of the same title, which is due out in 2013, probably in...
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourHere's the latest in a series of columns I'm writing for the North Coast Journal. The column is called The Drunken Botanist; my book of the same title will be out next year. A friend of mine has been on a grueling book tour to promote her new novel....
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourHere’s another in my ongoing series of “Drunken Botanist” cocktail articles for the North Coast Journal, loosely based on my forthcoming book of the same name. Forgive the Humboldt references, which are, of course, of interest only to people in Humboldt. Seems like everyone in these parts has an...
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourThis time last year, I made a little homemade grenadine during pomegranate season. We had a party shortly after that in which we mixed up Pink Lady cocktails according to this recipe in Imbibe magazine. The drinks were a hit–and although we hadn’t been using grenadine around the house...
Read more in: Drink This, Garden Rant Cocktail HourAs long as we're talking about booze today, here's a strange and marvelous thing: the people at Hendrick's Gin are injecting their usual madcap absurdity into London Cocktail Week, an event it pains me greatly to miss. Anyway, they've created an Umbrella Emporium to pay tribute to the cocktail...
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Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { What a perfect garden and I love that you loved the STUFF. Stuff can be a no no to some of the more snobish garden... } – May 25, 10:14 AM
Commented on Cats in the Garden - Solutions Only { In my experience, the presence of domestic cats does have an impact on the wildlife levels in a garden. By wildlife I mean birds, rodents,... } – May 25, 8:05 AM
Commented on The Animals and Garden Amenities of Plantsman David Culp { How? Serendipity! a Locust tree with a know hole to fill ... beautiful. } – May 25, 6:28 AM
Commented on When Food is Too Convenient for Our Own Good { Good point, Sandra. Pollan's been accused of being slightly tone-deaf about the uneven (and gendered) distribution of labor that necessarily follows sustainable and self-sufficient living.... } – May 25, 6:13 AM
Commented on Roses redux { I have never heard that before. What a great tip! My second most favorite rose, Therese Bugnet, is seldom bothered by Japanese beetles (or anything... } – May 24, 8:55 PMWe are:
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