Month: January 2007

Double or Nothing

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DOUBLE OR NOTHING             My trade association, the Garden Writers of America, refers to its members as “Garden Communicators”.  As a veteran “garden communicator” I receive a boatload of mail order plant, seed and garden equipment catalogs every year.  The flow started before Christmas, and now every day I can expect to find a catalog … Read more

Unseasonable Weather

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UNSEASONABLE WEATHER             When I take stock of the current state of my garden, I realize that this may just be the Year of Perpetual Bloom.  English garden writers have been bragging about their year-round flowers for decades, if not centuries, but those of us in the northeastern United States have never had that luxury.  … Read more