June 2025
“There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing is left but wine and the touch of a hand.”
— Charles Morgan
Read More June 2025Tag: garden
May 2025
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel Hudson
Read More May 2025April 2024
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” — George Orwell
Read More April 2024September 2023
“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.” — Peggy Toney Horton
Read More September 2023Chaos Garden • The Swiss Chard
“Plants want to grow; they are on your side as long as you are reasonably sensible.” — Anne Wareham
Read More Chaos Garden • The Swiss ChardJuly 2022
“July, that lovely hell, all
velvet dresses and drapes
stuffed into a hot little hole.”
— Laura Kasischke
June 2022
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” — Steinbeck
Read More June 2022May 2021
May was new. New plant propagations, new wine, a new museum to haunt, a new tattoo. Two birthdays, one of them a 90th. New friendships and new arts-and-crafts for new friends.
Read More May 2021Garden Grows or: How I Learned to (hopefully) Stop Killing My Plants. Part III.
Garden Grows or: How I Learned to (hopefully) Stop Killing My Plants. Part II.
This time just feels different…
Read More Garden Grows or: How I Learned to (hopefully) Stop Killing My Plants. Part II.
A Place For Everything. 