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An Essay: Gardener in the Wild
05/04/2011 - 21:51:41
This post is in: Travel
The San Jacinto Mountains, above Palm Springs, California, shoot up 10,804 feet from the desert without, as one writer has it, the geologic fanfare of foothills. I’d come in January to one of its mountain towns, Idyllwild, to try to recover some shred of a self fractured from a September move. I left a beloved [...]
A Dogwood By Any Other Name
22/03/2011 - 23:10:09
This post is in: Gardening
by Paula Panich Four hundred years ago, almost to the moment, the English botanist and barber-surgeon John Gerarde was cataloguing the plants in his garden. In a corner he saw a dogwood, and mused over its many names – “Hounds tree, Hounds berry, Dogs berry tree, Pricke-timber . . . Gater tree.” But what could [...]