Thought Provoking List

– Posted in: Miscellaneous, Recommended Links
1 comment

Found via Marmalade.ca: Ten things that gardening has taught me. I strongly agree with some of the items on the list, and disagree with others. I think plenty good can be said about weeding, and I don’t think “geraniums are to gardening what parsley is to cooking.” But then, I use parsley for flavoring, not decoration. The commenters had their own words of wisdom to add.

I always find things to blog about when I should be doing something else. In this case, phone calls. I hate making phone calls. Especially to insurance companies.

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

Comments on this entry are closed.

bill June 24, 2005, 7:06 pm

Gardening is about 90% weeding. Unfortunately.