Month: August 2011
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It’s the Unplanned, a Thing Called Life, in the Garden
“One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.” Hermann Hesse A great deal has recently grown in this garden—both intended and otherwise. Many of my new plants, sown this year from seeds sent to me in the mail only last winter, have borne great and rich…
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Volunteer Park Conservatory (Seattle): Part Five, The Bromeliad House
This—the last room on this visit we’ve been having for about a week now—is the Bromeliad House. Dischidia ‘Thailand Blush’. I am sorry I don’t know as much about these plants as I’d like to, but in my home, they are simply too difficult to care for and that always complicates things. I’d love to…
Ann Loves Plants 