Category: Random Posts from Home

  • Happy Saint Patrick’s Day—from a Gardener Lost in the Irish-American Diaspora

    Happy Saint Patrick’s Day—from a Gardener Lost in the Irish-American Diaspora

    The most popular post ever written on this blog is Fête de la Saint-Fiacre—and a prayer too. You likely never read it, but thousands of folks have since it was written in 2013. I wrote it for the saint’s feast day, and it was posted just a few days before I was married for the…

  • Quick and Quirky Planty Book Reviews

    Quick and Quirky Planty Book Reviews

    It’s funny how the books I’ve picked for this group work together—but they do. In a funny way this group shows more about me as a plantsperson and horticulturist than many of my posts do. My garden is a laboratory… where I happen to work and play a lot. 1-Founding Gardeners by Andrea Wulf (published…