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Garden Thoughts
by George McNaughton
views: 18 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
September 03, 2007 11:07 PM EDT -- There is a favorite time of day in my garden and a favored view:        but there is also a place to seek the shade which is hidden from the casual passer-by:  passing beyond . . . more
July 04, 2007 09:00 PM EDT -- Initially I called it my bog garden, but I came to realize that the bog was in the pond and the pond was beside or a feature of the garden, but not the garden.  So with my sixth son, I began to imagine . . . more
July 15, 2007 08:58 PM EDT -- It was standard fare in Sunday school a mixture of doctrine delivered with a velvet fist of guilt inspiring commentary about our times and daily life.  Coupled with some doctrine and speculation as . . . more
April 03, 2008 06:30 PM EDT -- The snow isn't completely off the yard, though crocus are up and at them.  Unfortunately, we are expecting snow tonight and the tulips I planted last year around my weed garden are vigorously . . . more
Wintergreen
by George McNaughton
views: 11 | rating: 10 | comments: 7
August 10, 2007 12:25 PM EDT -- As I have meditated on my garden to be, it occurs to me that wintergreen might make a good groundcover -- but then I realized that I know next to nothing about wintergreen, at least the plant from whom . . . more
August 11, 2007 02:32 PM EDT -- I believe that all responsible gardeners understand that it is taboo to transplant natural plants, especially wildflowers which are moderately rare from the wild.  Let me suggest another approach.  . . . more
July 15, 2007 08:48 PM EDT -- You can sit there in the quiet of the evening, just before dusk and look.  Look across a broad expanse of grass and white clover at a two hundred year old Federal farmhouse.  The light . . . more
In The Garden
by George McNaughton
views: 16 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
September 02, 2007 11:46 PM EDT -- If you wish to have a connection with your land you have to spend time on it, and most people only have enough time to form a connection with a relatively small parcel of land ten, maybe twenty acres maximum.  . . . more
June 21, 2007 10:49 PM EDT -- I started work on creating a garden out by our fire pond this spring.  Initially, it was to have been a bog garden because the pond has become almost silted shut at the end towards the garden.  . . . more
July 13, 2007 11:07 PM EDT -- The most therapeutic part of a garden is just sitting or standing in it, looking around and trying to visualize how it should grow, what limb should be pruned, what area should be cleared and mowed, and . . . more
September 14, 2007 11:57 PM EDT --   Well, can't say we weren't warned.  My son prepared a raised bed vegetable garden       near my weed garden and arbor.  Nobody thought the deer would leave . . . more
August 11, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --     There are than one way to consider the weed garden.  We can think of it and treat it as simply an unmown space clearly and cleanly demarcated by mowing.  A place reserved for . . . more
August 18, 2007 11:18 PM EDT -- I have been fascinated with the construction of hedges ever since I read a National Geographic article about a dying European art -- the laying of hedges.  These are not the boring boxwood and monoculture . . . more
April 22, 2008 07:21 PM EDT -- There are some gardens which are created for production, such as vegetable gardens.  Other gardens are created for beauty, aesthetics, and landscaping effect.  Then there are the ascetic gardens . . . more
August 20, 2007 09:07 PM EDT -- There really was not much going on tonight, so a glass of herbal tea and I headed for the garden.       This particular garden is carved out of a wild rose, elderberry, and wild . . . more
Saskatoon Blueberry
by George McNaughton
views: 114 | rating: 10 | comments: 6
March 12, 2008 06:35 PM EDT -- Does anybody have experience gardening with Saskatoon blueberries?  Do they attract birds, do they really taste like real blueberries?  What other value do they have? more
September 02, 2007 12:56 AM EDT -- Perhaps its because I lived at a lake in the summer that makes the onset of Indian Summer seem beautiful, but sad in a way.  Its not like I didn't enjoy going back to school, I was one of those . . . more
July 31, 2007 05:20 PM EDT -- Once again the power of gardening has awed me with its might.  Our family was starting to get a little unfocused without a family project.  That kind of happens from time to time when the vast . . . more
September 05, 2007 08:51 PM EDT -- We live in a culture that demands the awesome, the spectacular, the breathtaking and the sublime, although our society tends to deliver something far less.  But if you require the awesome, the spectacular, . . . more
August 17, 2007 10:14 PM EDT -- It has been from the Beginning that all gardens have boundaries.  A demarcation which says this is the garden and that is, well something else.  When talking about boundaries, its not necessary . . . more
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