Symmetry scares me a little. It especially scares me in the garden, because true symmetry is almost impossible to attain when you’re growing things. That’s probably why I rarely (if ever) do matching containers. There’s… [Continue Reading]
Archives for July 2012
WANTED: Zucchini robber
I went away for five or six days over the weekend (you probably noticed since, unlike much more organized bloggers, I can never seem to stack up posts to automatically go up when I’m not… [Continue Reading]
A summer haircut
A few weeks ago, Debbie at A Garden of Possibilities wrote about her favorite reblooming perennials. Nepeta (i.e. catmint) didn’t make her list, but it tops mine. I’ve always loved lavender-lined paths, but I’ve had… [Continue Reading]
Don’t try to understand the deer (and how to keep them from eating your garden)
Deer are odd creatures. They don’t seem to have any rhyme or reason to what they feel like eating on any given day. They stand in front of cars and stare at the passengers. They… [Continue Reading]
A temporary, but pretty, tabletop
Here are a few things I’ve learned in the last week: 1. Living near a large, damn near freezing lake (seriously the water temperature off our house is 56 degrees today), has its benefits when… [Continue Reading]