Mother Nature has made it clear to me that she was always in charge. She does, however, encourage me to be creative within the parameters she defines. If I am to be surrounded by water, then I must work with it by envisioning a future that works for me and for the water – a cypr...
Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives. City Farming: Lovely...
A close acquaintance with cultivated plants and with the multitude of types and their differentiation into geographical groups as well as their frequently sharp physiological isolation from each other compel us to refer the very origin of cultivated plants to such remote epochs, where periods of 5-...
Many groups of spiders can be found in agricultural systems. An analysis by Young and Edwards (1990) demonstrated the presence of over 600 spider species spanning 26 families found in 9 specific field crops in the United States. According to their analysis: 5 spider families comprised the majori...
Social, recreational, mutual support, religious, and other kinds of groups can become the family we need when we need it. We will seek out people who provide emotional, social, and maybe even financial help. We need that. We crave it. And if your birth family doesn’t provide what you...
We will have to wave goodbye to the meadows near Loirston Loch, and Union Terrace Gardens are a stone’s throw from being filled in with god-knows-what kind of shopping mall/parking area ( ‘it’s only full of grass’ says Councillor John Stewart ). A massive bypass will cut through...
but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blaz...
Many plants will deteriorate after some time after being located in such a condition. If it is possible, do a rotation between groups of plants to be displayed in your lift landing. After being displayed for a week or two in the dim lift landing, you can shift them to a brighter place...
They conduct workshops, involve themselves in city issues and support related groups in the city. Taher hopes to establish a Green Team in each of Riverside’s 26 neighborhoods. Another objective of SustainRiverside is to increase participation in community gardens by five percent. What does this...
Small groups of local women could be found talking or gently praying together in the enclosed niches at either end of the garden. And the benches are well made, strong and comfortable. So it really does work as a space. Just needs some more botanical support. Tony Tomeo, a faithful ...