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I broke a garden rule today

by Kathy Purdy on October 31, 2010

. . . some gardens are more fantastic than others, and a very few are so fantastic that they seem to be more about fantasy than about gardening. Like a play within a play, these gardens comment on the nature of illusion, the mechanics of mesmerization, the mystery of why and how the simple act of cordoning off space and time can charge them so highly with meaning.
Valerie Easton

Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day April 2009

by Kathy Purdy on April 15, 2009

You always carry the memory of your garden in your heart. No matter where on earth you are . . . some mysterious tie will always bind you to your very own patch of soil.
Daniel Blajan, Foxgloves and Hedgehog Days
Improbability is not a quality we value in landscapes.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in Our Life in Gardens

Seven Gardening Gifts No One Will Give Me

by Kathy Purdy on May 9, 2008

But gardeners do not dwell too long on catastrophe. Failure is an accepted part of daily life and we value our successes the more.
Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Passalong, heirloom, and cottage garden plants

by Kathy Purdy on June 3, 2007

There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.
Alfred Austin

Favorite Plant Combinations: May

by Kathy Purdy on May 18, 2007

Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

May Blooms: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

by Kathy Purdy on May 17, 2007

Like longtime parents, longtime gardeners learn when to fret and when to shrug.
Michele Owens, Grow the Good Life

A Garden Labyrinth

by Kathy Purdy on April 26, 2007

Writing and gardening, these two ways of rendering the world in rows, have a great deal in common.
Michael Pollan, Second Nature

Daffodils are my favorite flowers

by Kathy Purdy on March 29, 2007

But gardeners do not dwell too long on catastrophe. Failure is an accepted part of daily life and we value our successes the more.
Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Heirloom Narcissus

by Kathy Purdy on May 24, 2006

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration.
Lou Erickson

Signs of Spring

by Kathy Purdy on April 11, 2006

It isn’t that I don’t like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
Vita Sackville-West

Heads Up

by Kathy Purdy on June 26, 2003

There are two difficulties with ground covers: first to get them to grow, and then to get them not to.
Elizabeth Lawrence

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