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Winterberries: Wildflower Wednesday

by Kathy Purdy on January 25, 2012

It's Human Nature, or at least a gardener's nature (which is not quite the same thing), to want to live at least one and preferably two climatic zones warmer than where he gardens
Henry Mitchell

Hydrangeas that Thrive in a Cold Climate

by Kathy Purdy on August 14, 2010

Fantasy makes all gardens grow. Without it you may have yard, plot, park, grounds, but you lack the essential ingredient of garden, the element that seizes the imagination and transports or envelops you into a world invented by the gardener.
Valerie Easton

50 High-Impact, Low-Care Garden Plants: Book Review

by Kathy Purdy on February 24, 2009

A garden is a private world or it is nothing, and the gardener must be allowed his vagaries.
Eleanor Perenyi

Forsythia Pruning: Before and After

by Kathy Purdy on July 10, 2007

This morning the sun and warmth have gone, a sleety rain is making it difficult to be outside, so I have made a list of the fall jobs. . . . The list that I gradually compile is long, but in order to give myself a sense of accomplishment, I include one or two jobs that I have already done.
Brian Bixley, Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate

Spring madness: Search and rescue

by Kathy Purdy on May 8, 2007

The garden and gardener have grown alongside each other over the years, each shaping the other.
Laurie Lisle

Pruning strategy for forsythia

by Kathy Purdy on April 27, 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

Pruning forsythia in mud season

by Kathy Purdy on April 10, 2007

It's the gardener's job to choose those that will thrive in his or her climate, rather than trying to force the plants to grow where they're not well suited.
Nancy Ondra, in The Perennial Care Manual

Bending the Rules, Planting Shrubs

by Kathy Purdy on April 16, 2006

What you plant in your garden reflects your own sensibility, your concept of beauty, your sense of form. Every true garden is an imaginative construct, after all.
Stanley Kunitz

Huh?

by Kathy Purdy on September 15, 2004

It is a great joy the day we discover that we can learn things without having to make the mistake ourselves.
Henry Mitchell

Edward Hamilton: Good gardening books, cheap

by Kathy Purdy on November 9, 2002

If the garden was a secret and we could get into it we could watch the things grow bigger every day, and see how many roses are alive. Don't you see? Oh, don't you see how much nicer it would be if it was a secret?
from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lilac Books

by Kathy Purdy on September 6, 2002

I had to remember that I was only the referee, the human being who weeded and pinched back and watched everything grow. If I was patient and paid close attention, perennials would let me know where they wanted to be.
Laurie Lisle

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