poppies

If tending a garden has meant coming under the yoke of the seasons, my capitulation is complete; it is a willed captivity, however, perhaps like any other kind of passion.
Laurie Lisle

Winter Thaw Discoveries

by Kathy Purdy on December 29, 2009

. . . the difference between great daffodils and common ones is not so vast as one thinks in the first flush of excitement when one starts being serious about daffodils.
Henry Mitchell

Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities!: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on April 9, 2009

The biggest crocuses are also excellent for gardeners who fear they are themselves getting almost too refined to breathe.
Henry Mitchell

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day June 2008

by Kathy Purdy on June 15, 2008

Here is a landscape pronouncement of possibly dubious value: Any ilex ought to be planted in front of or below windows for winter beauty, simply because you stare out of windows so much during that season.
Joe Eck, Wayne Winterrowd in Our Life in Gardens

Seven Gardening Gifts No One Will Give Me

by Kathy Purdy on May 9, 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

Poppy Seed Queens

by Kathy Purdy on January 20, 2008

Those of us who garden in places where there are only a hundred or so frost-free days perforce do so concisely. We know well that tender plants have a finite life span and that sentences and seasons, no matter how we may choose to lengthen them, must both come to an end. Period.
Roger B. Swain

Peony poppies

by Kathy Purdy on July 31, 2007

They should look pretty together, if only my scheme comes off. Alas, how seldom do these little schemes come off. Something will go wrong; some puppy will bury a bone; some mouse will eat the bulbs; some mole will heave the daphnes and the lilac out of the ground. Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
Vita Sackville-West

A Few of My Favorite Things

by Kathy Purdy on July 18, 2006

Dreams, not desperation, drive people forward to plant gardens.
Carol Michel, May Dreams Gardens, 20 Oct 2010

Can you believe it?

by Kathy Purdy on October 1, 2005

When dealing with frost it is always best to be paranoid. In the spring never think it is too late for one more frost to come. And in the fall never think it too early.
Rundy

A Plea for Help

by Kathy Purdy on July 5, 2005

The trouble with master plans in gardens, then, is simply that they do not take into account masterful plants. Nor addled masters.
Henry Mitchell

A Good Gardening Day

by Kathy Purdy on July 2, 2005

Nowhere but at home are the flowers the most colorful and the scents the sweetest.
Daniel Blajan, Foxgloves and Hedgehog Days

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