There’s a brief moment in early spring—usually in the first week—when a perfect freshness unfolds. The balance of light tilts to favor the “out of doors”. Clean air streams inside. Fordhook’s 60 acres of forest, meadow and gardens flash in the sun.
I enjoy the “species” quality of spring. By July the jumbled, generic woods seem [...]
America’s rich are now under greater scrutiny than at any time since the era of muckrakers and Robber Barons. What the rich are guilty of, it seems, is making money and being rich. It is certainly true that wealth is concentrated in relatively few hands, with just one percent of the country possessing 34 per [...]
These hot ones are the hottest, as my friends back in Chicago put it. Catch these “tamale pies” while they last. The train is leaving the station; the parade is passing by; the sun is on the yardarm; the rooster is on the prowl, and the hoose is in the gow. So, please, get busy [...]
Our research gardener, William Rein, provides these timely March tips.
Helping bring the garden back to life in early spring garden preparation:
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Don’t jump the gun – March is a tricky month. As soon as it feels like spring, the next day or next week it can feel like winter! (In fact, this year it seemed spring [...]
Around this time of year, I love to watch “Wild Palms“, the ultimate spring flick. The great character actor Robert Loggia can’t catch up with the pace of his imagination, which takes a devilish turn. It’s about life’s quickening quality—never catching up with itself—and our innate frustration with comprehending, much less understanding it.
I like spring—it’s [...]
The ultimate stimulus plan is here. Here is a process that is simple, comprehensive, wide-ranging. It illuminates what has been obscure, catalyses dormant energies, reveals new and splendid possibilities.
Welcome to spring. Let us escape the dank, dark recesses of the recent past, propel ourselves into the light and bask in its revivifying dazzle. Let’s take [...]
Reports of Heronswood’s death have been highly exaggerated.
In this very paper a few weeks back I was astonished to come upon a post-mortem of the world-famous—and thriving—nursery. In an otherwise commendable piece on Corydalis, the writer, Valerie Easton, refers to the “old Heronswood nursery.” Later, she writes of when “Heronswood closed down.” The writer is [...]
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