Category: Digging Deeper
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Retail Garden Center Conversations: Felco Pruners
18-year-old Felco pruners wrapped with bike tape. These belonged to an young man I met recently at a retail garden center in Portland and they’d been given to him by his former boss at his last job. Warmed my heart a bit… Some people who know me might actually say I’m a friendly person. I…
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The Famous Garden Lady (from Digging Deeper: a Series of Gardening Micro-Stories)
Stilisierte Blumen vor dekorativem Hintergrund, Stilleben, 1908 (Stylized flowers before decorative background, still life) by Egon Schiele She said she wouldn’t listen to the two women unless the word Clematis was pronounced Clem-uh-tis and not Cluh-MAAA-tis. (Prescriptivist linguistics do not belong in gardening conversations thought the younger woman. Gardeners—by their very nature—should always be descriptivists, but…
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