The plants in your garden depend on you. Therefore, your knowledge–or “science”–of them is crucial to their survival. The more knowledgeable the gardener, the better the garden–this is an inviolable rule. Gardening requires the domestication of plants, similar to that of animals, but with a major difference. With our care, plants make their own food. [...]
This past May I spent a week working at the Heronswood Northwest Research Nursery at Kingston, WA, across the Puget Sound from Seattle. At that time, I helped harvest plants for propagation. I was anxious to see how the garden looked after the growing season. So when I was offered a chance to visit again, [...]
Life slips back and forth. Come late December, in my hometown in northern Illinois, we kids used to run home from grade school—and later middle school—drop our books, pick up our skates and head to Lake Ellyn, an oval of about 12 acres of spring-fed nirvana that was frozen by mid winter nearly all the [...]
A trendy word 20 years ago, “demystification” can apply to a surprisingly wide number of ideas, relationships, states or conditions of being and, most often, political, social and even ethnic and cultural realities. Of course, demystification primarily means “taking the mystery out of” any given subject. Therefore, a subject has to be more or less [...]
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