Miscellaneous

. . . the full double [peonies], very like dahlias that have gone to heaven and been transformed.
Henry Mitchell

A Winter Walk

by Kathy Purdy on February 10, 2011

Gardening is the most profound and complex of the arts, operating not just inessentially or marginally through time, but deliberately and consciously. What makes a garden great is the tension between the dimensions, between what is structurally permanent and what is temporarily, immediately, imposed upon that structure.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate
He who leaves no stone unturned will have a sore back.
Sid Fleischman
...if it weren't for the New York State agricultural exemption, the family farm couldn't exist.
Kathy Longyear, Longyear Farm.
Now, nobody imagines his modest little patch is going to be the greatest thing since copper bracelets, no. But it will be personal, and it will be fascinating, because there is no such thing as dullness when the gardener is going full steam ahead and damn the torpedoes, as it were.
Henry Mitchell

Plants vs. Zombies: Game Review

by Kathy Purdy on December 8, 2009

Gardening is never risk free. It's not risk free in your first year and it's not risk free in your 40th. . . .There's always another strange spin on the ball. There's always more to learn.
Michele Owens, Grow the Good Life
Kathy Purdy tending her garden

Why I Garden

by Kathy Purdy on November 24, 2009

That's why it's good to have family or old friends. They keep you from becoming a prisoner of your own obsessions. The world is wide, there are other pleasures in it besides gardening, and sometimes we gardeners just need to have that pointed out to us.
Michele Owens, Garden Rant 31-Aug-2007

Adenophora and Its Evil Twin Revisited

by Kathy Purdy on November 17, 2009

Compared to gardeners, I think it is generally agreed that others understand very little about anything of consequence.
Henry Mitchell

How to Plant a Lot of Crocuses

by Kathy Purdy on October 22, 2009

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

Ethel Garden Gloves Winner Announced

by Kathy Purdy on July 4, 2009

It therefore became a storage shed, which simply meant a place to put anything you could not find a place for otherwise.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in Our Life in Gardens

Home Depot Gift Card winner

by Kathy Purdy on May 20, 2009

There may be a fine line between improving garden flowers and making them ugly.
Henry Mitchell
In its own way, frost may be one of the most beautiful things to happen in your garden all year . . . Don't miss it. Like all true beauty, it is fleeting. It will grace your garden for but a short while this morning. . . . For this moment, embrace frost as the beautiful gift that it is.
Philip Harnden
. . . the full double [peonies], very like dahlias that have gone to heaven and been transformed.
Henry Mitchell

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