cold-climate-gardening

A Garden Labyrinth

by Kathy Purdy on April 26, 2007

Every spring offers another chance to undo the damage done by winter and finally get the garden right.
Laurie Lisle
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

Classic Garden Structures: Book Review

by Craig Levy on April 14, 2007

Only I, who live in the tropic of fancy, could be under the apocalypse of snow and ice that is Iowa and not admit that winter really exists.
Anne of Tender Dirt
I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.
Richard Diran

The Intimate Garden: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on April 8, 2007

Pruning is an art and a science. The rules are simple, but putting them into practice requires skill and judgment. Looking around, I gather that almost everyone leaves the job to an unskilled yardman with years of inexperience.
Elizabeth Lawrence

Blooming in March

by Kathy Purdy on March 15, 2007

This is how it should be with gardens and gardeners. They should love what they own, and own what they love; but their gardens must never own them, for there will be no pleasure in them if they do.
Thalassa Cruso

Tough Plants for Northern Gardens: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on February 13, 2007

The two most mysterious aspects of clematis are, How is the word pronounced? and, What is its plural form? Once these questions are answered, growing the plants is plain sailing.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

The Million Dollar Garden

by Kathy Purdy on December 6, 2006

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

Another cold frame

by Kathy Purdy on February 13, 2004

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

Super Duper Coldframe

by Kathy Purdy on March 11, 2003

Almost anything you do in the garden, for example weeding, is an effort to create some sort of order out of nature's tendency to run wild. There has to be a certain degree of domestication in a garden. The danger is that you can so tame a garden that it becomes a thing. It becomes landscaping.
Stanley Kunitz

The Renegade Gardener is a must-read

by Kathy Purdy on January 13, 2003

There is very little in gardening that benefits from being done quickly, and weeding teaches the virtues of pace as well as any activity.
Thomas C. Cooper, Horticulture, July 1988

Organic Gardening in Cold Climates: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on January 7, 2003

I am very fond of the Spring-flowering colchicums, but unfortunately slugs are also, and those greedy gastropods and I have a race for who can see the flower-buds first. If I win I go out after dark with an acetylene lamp and a hatpin and spear the little army of slugs making for a tea party at the sign of the Colchicum.
E.A. Bowles My Garden in Spring 1914

Weather variations or climate change?

by Kathy Purdy on December 27, 2002

This is what the true gardener expects. He knows that 'gardening is eleven months of hard work and one month of disappointment.'
Elizabeth Lawrence

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