Sometimes it takes somebody else’s wisdom to confirm what you already know or partially know. I recently had that experience when I attended the Pacific NW Flower and Garden Show, where I heard author and designer Stefani Bittner of Homestead Design Collective (http://www.homesteaddesigncollective.com/) speaking about her new book, Harvest. This book confirmed my trials of […]
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Tool Drool: A Little Garden Haircut Before the Start of School
My latest tool drool: a battery-powered hedge trimmer for back-to-school haircuts in the garden. Sometimes if you’re not totally pesto-crazy, it can be hard to keep up with basil, and eventually comes a day when, instead of leaves one starts to see spikes. Yikes! Here are the floral spikes of thai basil: deceptively, […]