My landscape garden abuts a man-made pond with about 200 feet of "shoreline". The pond was the trumpcard ensuring my drive to purchase the property late 1973. True, the house was an uninteresting box and smaller than our Minneapolis home, but I was finished with city life. Hippies with all of their ugly, had invaded our neighborhood....and I had three children to raise. The box was at the end of a cul de sac where...
Read More >>"Special" woodies to me are shrubs and trees on my grounds which are simply EXTRA special.....not necessarily my favorite woodies, the ones I couldn't live without, but those I am extra thrilled to "own" as a part of my landscape garden life. I could not manage this outdoor life of mine without conifers with none as a group more special than the others. Name a creepy juniper, a mature White pine or Swiss Stone pine,...
Read More >>In our modern America such a question might have been asked in a court room, school room, a family kitchen, office room, or laboratory. I, thank God, arrived at a different generation with far different thoughts, beliefs and values. I was very lucky. "Weed" when I was young was more like an order. "Time for you to go out and 'weed' the garden", Mother used in verb form. The word in noun form referred to...
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