Garden Quote
Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com Continue reading Garden Quote
Stories and poems.
Despite the gardener’s best intentions, Nature will improvise. ~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com Continue reading Garden Quote
A single bloom has one through five, simple, clean and most alive Twelve to sixteen is semi-double, flat and wavy, rarely trouble More than that is just plain double, shapes of pointed, wide or bubble Fully or very double is flower excess, one to two hundred petals in full dress Counting petals day and night, fragrant job, soft and light Continue reading Counting Rose Petals
The footsteps of the gardener are the best fertilizer. Continue reading Chinese Proverb
Green The color of growing foliage—grass, leaves and stems, chlorophyll. Between yellow and blue in the spectrum, with a wavelength between 500 and570 nm—waves of sound, light or water. Not fully developed, unseasoned, immature—new growth, tender. Simple; unsophisticated; gullible; easily fooled—children, dogs? Fresh, recent, or new—weeds, tender. Having a sickly appearance—too many waves, seasick, lovesick, homesick. Full of life and vigor; young—blossoming, growing. Environmentally sound or beneficial—save the earth. Grassy land; a plot of grassy ground—village common. Green Continue reading Many shades of green…
Which is your favorite Green? Emerald, apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian. Me: emerald for May-my-birthday, forest for the wild trees, peacock for the almost blue rainbow, sea for the ocean swell. Continue reading Many shades of green…