From an interesting blog I just recently noticed, North Coast Cafe, comes this link to an article on the zen of weeding:
Weeding gives me the satisfaction of bringing order, however momentary, to one small corner of the cosmos. With pruning shears in hand, I can even reshape that corner, trimming an overgrown bush, balancing a […]
The first few years this tall plant showed up in this corner of the garden I pulled it up, having no idea what it was. Luckily some escaped my hand long enough to bloom. Now it is an annual delight for a week or so every September.
I don’t know what species of Solidago […]
Blue is my favorite color for the garden. Perhaps that is because I don’t see some other colors quite right. I have red-green color blindness like millions of others, mostly males. I can see both red and green as distinctly different colors but when they are together the red seems to […]
Paul Krugman, in an interview with Kevin Drum:
… what really, really scares me, even though I can’t write about it all the time, is the environment. That’s more important than anything.
It’s not hard to get a picture of a butterfly around this plant in the early Fall. They tend to flock to it. Eupatorium greggii sprawls across wet, shady areas like the one here. The blooms occur mostly in September.
Popular names for the plant are blue mist-flower and blue […]
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