…Look, where the bluebird on the bough Breaks into rapture even now! He sings, tip-top, the tossing elm As tho he would a world o’erwhelm. Indifferent to the void he rides Upon the wind’s eternal tides…             -Edwin Markham  “Don’t … Continue reading →

My garden will never make me famous I’m a horticultural ignoramus I can’t tell a string bean from a soybean Or even a girl bean from a boy bean             -Ogden Nash Questions of bean gender aside, there are occasional, … Continue reading →

No white nor red was ever seen So am’rous as this lovely green             -Andrew Morrell As leitmotif to last time’s “who does your garden grow,” we turn next to Siebold Hemlock, Tsuga sieboldii. The genus Tsuga is small with … Continue reading →

A wall of forest looms above And sweetly the blackbird sings All the birds make melody Over me and my books and things…             –Priscian In the past we have discussed plants which commemorate Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), Cherokee Chief Sequoia … Continue reading →