Archive for January, 2007
lessons in nature
Today I am going to tell you a little about a book I’ve had on my gardening shelf for about 15 years. It’s called The Garden-Ville Method and it was written by Malcolm Beck.
I had just moved into a house with a big yard after living in apartments for many years and I wanted […]
changes in hardiness zone map
The National Arbor Day Foundation recently released its own version of the hardiness zone map.
According to a Foundation press release, “The new map reflects that many areas have become warmer since 1990 when the last USDA hardiness zone map was published. Significant portions of many states have shifted at least one full hardiness zone. Much […]
sorry, the fountain is frozen over
We woke up to a light snow this morning. It was something of a surprise. I don’t know how to measure snowfall but it looks like a couple inches. The sky is cloudy and it is below freezing so it may be here a while.
wickerby
One of the more unusual books I received for Christmas was Wickerby: An Urban Pastoral by Charles Siebert. A blurb on the back cover refers to the book as the “un-Walden.”
Published in 1998, it is the reflections of a struggling writer living in a deteriorating section of Brooklyn. With his girlfriend off on […]