A kitchen garden seen on the road

I turned around and went back to take a picture of this vegetable and flower garden in the Neckar Valley ( traveling between the Schwarzwald and Rothenburg ob der Tauber (a wonderfully well-preserved and reconstructed medieval town.)Check out the solar hot water panels sheltering the wood pile, with...

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A Schwarzwald sunset

Here's a favorite experience today, seeing the sunset after a largely overcast day.View toward Schoenwald  A full moon was already visible    Forest floor  Posted with Blo...

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Traveling into the Schwarzwald

    Hard not to like! Posted with Blo...

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A glorious Florida afternoon!

 This doesn't have anything to do with gardening, but the clouds in every direction around our house early this afternoon were amazing, so I thought I'd share them with you. Isn't Florida wonderful???Green Gardening Matters,Ginny Stib...

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Freiburg market at Munsterplatz

One of my favorite places in Freiburg was the almost daily market in the Munsterplatz (during the 2 months I was there - language school for all of us DAAD fellowship folks - we were from all over the world, another great experience from long ago.)I was so glad both to still find the market in full...

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Traveling from Heidelberg to Munstertal

Somehow I've bumbled into a fabulous Schwarzwald destination outside of Freiburg for a couple of days. Hotels & vacation apartments in Freiburg are hard to book at the last minute on weekends, so I'd had to look outside the city.Munstertal view Down Munstertal But I managed to find a wonderful small...

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A beautiful cover and progress in the gardens

Organic Methods for Vegetable Gardening in FloridaBig news! The front cover of my new book.I think it looks fantastic, don't you? I love the way the designer at University Press of Florida used the purple color from the eggplants in the top photo to edge the tomato-colored title box. Thanks to Nell...

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Hermannshof

This is a totally amazing garden - what they've done with our North American natives in naturalistic plantings is remarkable. (Click on the images for a larger view). Perennial bed, Hermannhofanother viewHere are just a few images. The Blogsy/Photogene/Blogspot interface on an iPad isn't as easy as...

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