People we find clever or interesting in some other way.
Prince Charles visiting Common Good City Farm in Washington, DC. It's coronation time in Britain and some of you may be getting up at 5 tomorrow morning (or [...]
Ah, April. Almost time to begin visiting other gardeners’ dreams come to life. Minding your manners when visiting another’s garden should come naturally to gardeners. After all, garden etiquette [...]
A portrait of John Sales by Charles Hawes. I have just heard that John Sales died in December. This is very sad news to me, but may mean [...]
Mike Hayman was rummaging around in Louisville last month when he found a photo he’d taken of Louise “Weesie” Smith in her Birmingham, Alabama, garden on April 15, 2015. [...]
Many of you no doubt have grown tired of atmospheric rivers, Nor’easter blizzards, and bomb cyclones with “sting jets” like a “scorpion’s tail descending from the sky.” I would [...]
The first Desert Fathers were contemplative Christians holed up in Egyptian caves during the first couple of centuries A.D. (There were also Desert Mothers, of course.) I played Desert Father, [...]
What is a gardener? Many years ago Charles would refuse to ‘own’ his part of the garden because he declared that he couldn’t properly claim to be a gardener. He [...]
Watching a seed cotyledon (sprout) pop through the soil is heaven on earth. I am especially interested in flower and tree seeds, but Rose and I collect a few [...]
By now I'm betting you've all seen this view of Oprah Winfrey's garden, the set of her famous interviews with Harry and Meghan. But look at another shot of Oprah's [...]
I'm here to recommend a fascinating article about bonsai in the New Yorker - "The Beautiful, Brutal World of Bonsai" - featuring an American who undergoes a "brutal" six-year apprenticeship [...]
No one ever called me a nimble-fingered crafts maker. My prospects dimmed as a ten-year-old Cub Scout when our Den mother taught us how to make ashtrays. My parents, appreciative [...]
The grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference. --Thomas Merton Steve Foltz In [...]
