While doing some reading in the history of garden design—ornamental gardens that is, the squirrels, raccoons, and now armadillos make vegetable gardening far too frustrating for me—I read the following in Lorraine Harrison’s How to Read Gardens, “most gardens of any age are like a palimpsest: successive generations have changed adapted and influenced the soft …
A Garden by Another Name. . .
A conundrum seems the best thing to call it. It is a question that has arisen several times while working on a “Six on Saturday” post. In reporting on what’s going on in the garden at Highland Lake, I often make a distinction between the area in front of the house that has several clearly …
garden writers and garden books
Over a year ago, I mentioned an intent to write a post about a few of my favorite books on gardens (bloom and seed, 30 December 2018); however, I went on to a very different topic after briefly mentioning three works: Lorraine Harrison’s, How to Read Gardens: A Crash Course in Garden Appreciation, A Short …