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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008

by Kathy Purdy on June 15, 2008

It is one of the peculiarities of garden-making, the greatest of all the arts, that there are no "great" gardens made by welfare recipients …
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

The Truth About Organic Gardening: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on March 11, 2008

I am instinctively suspicious of any garden writer (or gardener) who is insufficiently fretful.
Chan Stroman

Canada thistle, the plague of my peonies

by Kathy Purdy on June 23, 2007

At such times I understand that the enjoyment of looking is nothing compared with the pleasure of gardening--and that I would much rather garden than have a Garden.
Laurie Lisle

Peonies: Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

by Kathy Purdy on June 19, 2007

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

What’s Wrong with My Peonies?

by Kathy Purdy on August 1, 2006

Gardening is only a refined form of gambling, after all. Sometimes the odds are fearfully against us; sometimes we win; but once the passion seizes us we are the victims of its fascination for life.
Neltje Blanchan

The Ladies

by Kathy Purdy on July 17, 2003

I don't mean to complain about my own garden. It serves me and satisfies me quite well, except at the moments when I get into despair over it: very frequent moments, when I long to have some other sort of garden, quite different; a garden in Spain, a garden in Italy, a garden in Provence, a garden in Scotland.
Vita Sackville-West

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