March 2006

Your first native plant book

by Kathy Purdy on March 28, 2006

I cannot live without a rose, especially a climbing or rambling rose, for just one truss tumbling in the right spot can be like that last long feather on a hat, a nonchalant sweep that lifts a perfectly acceptable design to another level, a throwaway gesture that means nothing and everything.
Marylyn Abbott

Homemade EarthBoxes(TM)

by Kathy Purdy on March 28, 2006

The biggest crocuses are also excellent for gardeners who fear they are themselves getting almost too refined to breathe.
Henry Mitchell

‘Tis the season for phenology

by Kathy Purdy on March 25, 2006

Intensive gardening, biodynamic bed-building, and every other gardening technique will seriously insult your imagination if you follow every step blindly. Every gardener should experiment and adapt.
Sandra Perrin

Greengirl is Back!

by Kathy Purdy on March 24, 2006

It soon becomes clear to the gardener, who has probably started out to achieve a certain bloom, that the cycle of life in the plant is a good bit more enjoyable than the bloom itself.
Henry Mitchell, in The Essential Earthman

Pondering Land Use

by Kathy Purdy on March 23, 2006

...if it weren't for the New York State agricultural exemption, the family farm couldn't exist.
Kathy Longyear, Longyear Farm.

Testing Seed Germination. . . what do you learn?

by Talitha Purdy on March 22, 2006

One of the things childhood is is a process of learning about the various paths that lead out of nature and into culture, and the garden contains many of these.
Michael Pollan, Second Nature

Let’s Go Native!

by Kathy Purdy on March 15, 2006

It's Human Nature, or at least a gardener's nature (which is not quite the same thing), to want to live at least one and preferably two climatic zones warmer than where he gardens
Henry Mitchell

Soil Survey Map

by Kathy Purdy on March 14, 2006

Garden math has always seemed a bit like using MapQuest to find Nirvana.
Barbara Damrosch, April 13, 2006 Washington Post

Snowdrops!

by Kathy Purdy on March 12, 2006

'I have had almost every rose that you can grow,' she says, 'and some died, but at least I have made their acquaintance.'
Elizabeth Lawrence

Build a Garden Bench

by Kathy Purdy on March 10, 2006

Men with trucks do not see new plantings when reversing or unloading, so trees must wait [to be planted] until all hard landscaping is done.
Marylyn Abbott

New York Gardening Books

by Kathy Purdy on March 7, 2006

[Colchicums] are sort of like the nuts in my cookies... I don't think about them a lot, but I'd certainly miss them if they weren't there.
Don of An Iowa Garden

Bookend Snowstorms

by Kathy Purdy on March 5, 2006

For the uninitiated, the reality of what it takes to create and maintain a great-looking garden appears to be an endless string of tiresome tasks and dirty jobs. But true gardeners know that the real fun of gardening in in the process--the planning, the planting, the nurturing, and the learning.
Nancy Ondra, in The Perennial Care Manual

Garden Voices

by Kathy Purdy on March 4, 2006

There is of course no such thing as a green thumb. Gardening is a vocation like any other--a calling, if you like, but not a gift from heaven. One acquires the necessary skills and knowledge to do it successfully, or one doesn't.
Eleanor Perenyi

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