The garden is no place for perfectionism. Especially with a toddler running wild at your feet. I’ve always had ambitions of building a Sunflower House—a fortress of Mammoths interspersed with Moulin Rouges, roofed with Heavenly Blue morning glories. By late August, my children would have a natural playhouse, an enchanted hideaway for picnics. We could [...]
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Growing Season
May 30th, 2011 No Comments
Tags: gardening · gardening with kids · Lilac Ridge Farm · Sharon Lovejoy
Rat-post
June 22nd, 2009 2 Comments
(NOTE: This posting has been delayed in order to prevent site investigation by the Town Zoning and Planning Board) Just in case you were imagining springtime in Vermont as an idyllic vernal fairy-land, here’s a story to bring you down to earth. Literally, down into the earth– into the compost, that is. On May 1st, [...]
The 4 G’s: Girls, Gardening, and “Gossip Girl”
May 24th, 2009 No Comments
Why haven’t I been writing more? I have lists of projects and article ideas, drafts of essays, editors to contact, queries to compose, and of course my ever-unfinished poetry manuscript… But it’s all languishing in my notebook because it’s late May and I have gardening fever. AND I’m addicted to “Gossip Girl.”
Tags: gardening · Gossip Girl
Water the Garden
April 20th, 2009 No Comments
Mid-April and the pink Daphne is in full-bloom. My daffodils are still buds about to pop. A. turns on the hose by herself and waters the dry perennial garden. She likes the Tree Peony poking up its reddish fronds. I’m always amazed how bright and dry April can be, no leaf cover to [...]