Stories About Gardening
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Read MoreSchools Out for the Summer (appropriately, it’s about 90F!)
My final day of teaching small farm and garden design at Zamni Agricol CFFL school started with coffee and bread (typical Haitian street breakfast) and ended a few minutes ago with a last minute request for me to teach again Tuesday. Students presentations of their design project proved they totally got the idea of bringing…
Read MoreSleeping Students, Dog Penis Fungi & More from Intern Isaac
I was teaching a college level class the other day when one fella rolled up his jacket, made a pillow, took some sleep supplements, and went right to sleep. I thought, ‘Son; do you know what an ego blow that is to a teacher?’ But I did something else of course. For five weeks I’m…
Read MoreIsaac Introduces Himself….
So I guess I should get on it and go ahead and do this blog post. Let’s start off with an introduction. Hi, I’m Isaac Kirwan and I’m the first intern for the crinum lilies. I’m 19, live in Greenville, and I go to Spartanburg Community College for Horticulture. Now most people I talk to…
Read MoreJenks & Tom’s Road Trip to Raleigh
Serial Internships & Old Dorm Stories
You know how they have classes for college freshmen intended to weed out the slackers? Well, back then, I was a self weeder. After an academically embarrassing freshman year, I left Clemson to do an internship with the Greenery on Hilton Head Island; spraying all the chemicals it takes to keep that fantasy world green.…
Read MoreNew Cover
Hey, We got a new cover for the book! Choosing it has been an interesting experience, I’ll write about it all one day. Today is gardening. Tomorrow morning I’ll write about our new intern. But what do you think? Our professional photographer friend from Augusta, Sharon Wilson took the pic.
Read MoreFall Garden Visiting Slide Show
November has been a busy time with garden visiting and talking and trading plants and such. Here’s a little slide show of a few of the gardens we’ve visited. We’re still dividing plants, no it’s not too cold. But next week is sharing time again; on Monday, Bob Polomski & Jenks talk about Deep Rooted…
Read MorePeople Who Show Us The World
In 1938 Buzzy’s second grade teacher made his class listen to Wagner and walk through gardens of neighborhood ladies and gentlemen. Some of the boys sneered. Buzzy, always sensitive , pretty much shocked me when he said, “Once or twice, on the playground, I found the boys who laughed and interrupted and I, (he whispers…
Read MoreGreat Dixter Was the Bait
The lectures by Great Dixter gardener were colorful and almost sales-force energetic but the real fun of Grower Great Gardeners symposium was the concentration of cool people. My two favorite conversations of the day are below. For all the successes of this fundraiser (for Spartanburg Community College in SC and Great Dixter Garden in southern…
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