“Opportunity is Like a Lovely Lady”
Quoted from Helen Keller’s address to the Lions Clubs. At the cool museum that is her birthplace you’ll see some nice gardens one of which was designed by a new friend. Phillip Oliver lives nearby. I didn’t know Philip but when I tweeted recently, “who can help me have some fun in northern Mississippi?” He…
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Two Tours, One List of Plants
Monday was my first official day at the farm, and so far we’ve visited clients and explored in Augusta and given two tours. It doesn’t really sound like much, but given the heat and dryness of the past few days, it’s a relief today to be enjoying the indoors of Starbucks. On our tours, one…
Read MoreDeep Rooted Wisdom Reviews
Y’all don’t need to read this. It’s just plain tacky, but a PR person told me I needed to do it. Therefore, for the sake of “link love”, which apparently means you stroke my back and I’ll stroke yours in the social media world, here are all the places that Deep Rooted Wisdom has some “online…
Read MoreShe Rooted All These Antique Roses
If you’ve met my Mother, you know she has a green thumb and a tender heart. Just days ago, we were working in the garden so briskly, that she decided not to stop to go to church. I took a picture of the roses below in her hand. I’m writing/editing this while she’s in the…
Read MorePhiladelphia Quick Garden Trip
[Not a valid template] Just some pictures from yesterday’s quick trip that started in the 18th century garden of America’s first plantsman, John Bartrum. The second group of pictures is the joyful Chanticleer and, finally, the elegant Barnes Foundation’s original home. (Later, we’ll get a tour of the new downtown home of the Barnes Foundation…
Read MoreParking Gardens; Plants That That Fry & Flood
I was talking to this guy the other day, a great landscaper, who tries to be earth friendly, and he says he just doesn’t do jobs without an irrigation system. “There’s just no way you can plant it and guarantee it will live.” Well, I can. Here’s a link to a garden where we had…
Read MorePass-along Garden Design Terms
Some of the jargon in the garden world is like nails on a chalkboard to me. “Plant-material” comes to mind. Come on. They are plants. Just plants. Why add the hyphen? Why denigrate living, marvelous, moving beings to construction and commodity terms? But I love learning old terms, elegant, flowing words that perfectly express a…
Read MoreSouth Carolina Safari — Walterboro, SC
Here’s a great little road trip y’all can join in on– it includes romance, food, car culture, farming, blackwater swamps and book stores. Thursday evening, I’m doing a book reading (ok, sometimes it comes off as save-the-earth-preaching) at the Walterboro Farmer’s Market/Colleton County Museum. (click for time/directions). For Columbia, Beaufort, Charleston, Savannah friends, make an…
Read MoreStone Artistry as the Garden Floor
Nothing like watching a master of his artwork. I get to orchestrate and feel the energy of carpenters, masons, metal smiths on projects all working toward a shared goal– garden making. Watching can be mesmerizing. Do you know the phrase, “the eroticism of competence”? Those on a mission to make, to create, have the energy. …
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