I was very excited recently to see a newspaper article entitled “How to get your garden spring ready in one weekend.” I was ready, the garden was more than ready, and frankly, I was looking for those magical tips and miraculous hacks that would condense the work of several weeks into one forty-eight hour period. … Read more
Back in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, European weavers created large tapestries that depicted tales from history or mythology. They adorned the backgrounds of those tapestries with hundreds of small, irregularly-spaced flowers, often against a green or dark background. This style, called “millefleur”, meaning “thousand flowers” was meant to suggest a flower-filled field. The best … Read more
In my neighborhood we enjoyed winter right through April, followed by ten minutes of spring. Now we are in the process of jumping headfirst into summer. The last of the daffodils, having survived late snow, cold spring winds and all kinds of insults, hang their heads, defeated by a sudden blast of hot sticky air. … Read more
