bloom_records

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day May 2009

by Kathy Purdy on May 16, 2009

Low maintenance is for homeowners, not gardeners!
Susan Harris of Garden Rant
And though one has begun to search for signs of spring almost since January, and to receive them, like postcards sent on a long voyage to home, it is with the greening of the grass that spring has, finally, certainly arrived.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in A Year at North Hill

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day December 2008

by Kathy Purdy on December 15, 2008

I will not say that your Mulberry trees are dead, but I am afraid that they are not alive.
Jane Austen, writing to her sister Cassandra

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day November 2008

by Kathy Purdy on November 24, 2008

I am aware that I have a genetic tendency towards a garden of nothing but Zinnias -- a combination of frugality, laziness, and weakness in the face of all that flash. . . . Knowing what can happen, I restrained myself around the zinnias and didn't pick a single coneflower head.
Anne of Tender Dirt

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day October 2008

by Kathy Purdy on October 15, 2008

Even when the future [garden] design is still just a matted clump of dormant perennial roots, it is in our mind's eye the perfect exhibit at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Marylyn Abbott

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day September 2008

by Kathy Purdy on September 15, 2008

Gardening may be the most exasperating occupation under the sun, but it gives as much as it gets--no more no less. Life in a garden is one long war with the powers of Evil, but the victory is worth winning. Maddening catastrophes are followed by spectacular triumphs. One minute you are flat on your face, and the next you are soaring on the wings of the morning.
Reginald Arkell

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day August 2008

by Kathy Purdy on August 15, 2008

A writer who gardens is sooner or later going to write a book about the subject--I take that as inevitable.
Eleanor Perenyi

Keeping and organizing garden records

by Kathy Purdy on June 27, 2008

To many gardeners, seed catalogues are the most accurate depiction we have of the Garden from which humans were expelled.
NY Times editorial 10 Jan 2011

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008

by Kathy Purdy on June 15, 2008

. . . Whoever it was who said Nature made no mistakes in colour harmony was either colour-blind or a sentimentalist. Nature makes the most hideous mistakes; and it is up to us gardeners to control and correct them.
Vita Sackville-West
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

Small Gifts: Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day April 2008

by Kathy Purdy on April 15, 2008

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Richard Diran

Snowdrops: When Does a Bud Become a Bloom?

by Kathy Purdy on March 16, 2008

Sleet, incidentally, is the worst five-letter four-letter word I know.
Henry Mitchell

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day: February 2008

by Kathy Purdy on February 15, 2008

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain

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