Maple Leaf Rag was my favorite piano piece when I was a kid. I was actually pretty decent at playing it. Good enough, at least, that my parents thought it would be a great idea to dress me up in a little bowler hat and suspenders when I was twelve years old and “encourage” me…
Autumn flower porn
Remember? This is supposed to be a garden blog, people. With lists and things.
Just one pic today—this luminous maple tree from a botanical garden near Niagara Falls: Related post: A fun little photo excursion to Cheekwood Botanical Gardens Related post: Chihuly’s fall color
Every year Halcyon Garden has more pots to fill, thanks to a generous grant by the Mom Green foundation. But every April we seem to buy fewer varieties of annuals. We know what we like now, and we don’t do quite so much experimenting anymore. And we’ve finally learned that a broad swath of one…
Whattaya get when you assemble a beautiful evening, lilies in bloom, and the Instagram iPhone app?
The 13-year cicadas’ legacy: legions of mangled small trees, hearing loss, public humiliation, and quashed hubris I do not like the red-eyed beast. I do not like it in the least. I do not like it when I dine. I do not like it in my wine. I do not like it on my plants.…
“Place loose mesh or netting over small, vulnerable trees to protect them from damage,” the experts tell us. But which trees are “vulnerable”? And what if you have about 30 “vulnerable trees” in your yard? Happy Mother’s Day, Mom! How’d you like to spend all day helping me incarcerate trees in sheets of fine netting?…
The Greenery 