It was a whirlwind weekend of moving up furniture and boxes last Friday, shedding furniture at local consignment shops, sorting boxes to the right spaces, unloading and distributing them, shedding even more, etc.But it was good work. It didn't take as long to get things back into a semblance of home as it did to shed things.And it wasn't so difficult to honor the old house that we were leaving,...
Showing posts with label creating a natural garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label creating a natural garden. Show all posts
Monday, 27 April 2015
Monday, 16 March 2015
Bloodroot in flower
Coming back to the Piedmont today, I was delighted to see bloodroot in full flower. I've made so many posts about bloodroot -- it's a favorite early spring flower. Here's a post from last year.We planted it in various places around the garden, starting with one plant. Ants have spread the...
Thursday, 26 February 2015
Creating a natural garden
As my gardening companion and I prepare to leave a garden (really a low-maintenance native plant-dominated landscape) that we've created over the last 22 years, it's interesting to reflect on the changes that we've made -- all to the good, certainly, from the perspective of being good stewards of our...
Saturday, 30 June 2012
creating a natural garden, creating a natural gardening, meadow gardens, parking lot meadows, pocket meadows
More pocket meadows
I'm been on the lookout for informal plantings of native grasses and forbs (herbaceous perennials) --- these are the pocket meadow plants and plantings that I'm wanting to promote in an upcoming talk. More expansive meadows (at least in the eastern U.S.) are hard to manage, as they want to become...