May 2006

Worldwide Bestselling Gardening Books

by Kathy Purdy on May 29, 2006

It takes exact amounts of rain, light, and heat for buds to open together and result in a few days of rare beauty. It might also, I was startled to realize, take more hours of gardening to create an ideal combination than the number of hours it lasted, but that was of little importance to me. After all, by then I had become a gardener.
Laurie Lisle

Heirloom Narcissus

by Kathy Purdy on May 24, 2006

Behind every bloom-filled border is a grubby, sweaty gardener with muddy knees, chipped fingernails, and sore muscles--and a big smile, too.
Nancy Ondra, in The Perennial Care Manual

Mother’s Day Mustard Pull

by Kathy Purdy on May 14, 2006

The garden was all in blue and gold, blue was the color of his wife's eyes and gold the color of her hair.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Native Plants This Spring

by Kathy Purdy on May 14, 2006

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more.
George Eliot

Primroses: Labels Can Be Deceiving

by Kathy Purdy on May 5, 2006

Gardening may well be one of the world's most important fantasies.
Henry Mitchell, in The Essential Earthman

Currently Fretting About . . .

by Kathy Purdy on May 4, 2006

Fantasy makes all gardens grow. Without it you may have yard, plot, park, grounds, but you lack the essential ingredient of garden, the element that seizes the imagination and transports or envelops you into a world invented by the gardener.
Valerie Easton

Leafing Out

by Rundy on May 3, 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

Back Online

by Kathy Purdy on May 2, 2006

All of longtime gardeners are guilty of experiencing our own irrational, unprovable revelations about what works in the garden.
Michele Owens, Grow the Good Life

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