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purple beans

If I knew how much I would enjoy purple beans, I would only have planted those to begin with. Besides...

mushrooms

Everyone is familiar with this weird characteristic of mushrooms: they spring out of the ground overnight, fully grown, whenever they...

bee-sy!

I love watching bees swarm the stonecrops on nice sunny afternoons. If a garden is thriving, the bees will come...

goldenrod

I always thought of goldenrod as a dyer’s plant and was surprised to learn that it has medicinal properties. Its...

green fruit

You will not believe the level of chaos nature can impose on a reasonably well tended garden in three weeks....

nature in balance

Nature always finds its way back to balance. Not the rigorous balance people conceive of, based on logic and rules,...

the purple shift

I never tire of watching the patterns of my garden, and after I’ve got used to noticing them they are...

the rainy season

It is the middle of the summer and I have yet to water the garden. There was never a need...

cuttings

Stem, root or leaf cuttings are the nursery standard for the propagation of perennials, especially those whose clumps grow woody...

a celebration of the sun

There are many traditions, myths and folk tales associated with the summer solstice, many of which involve the herbs and...