Category: Writing

  • After the Lombardy Dinner…

    After the Lombardy Dinner…

    Things have changed a lot since I last hosted dinners in my back garden. It’s been nearly a year now since I was prescribed a medication to help with my HAE swelling and I cannot express how different it felt to “perform” (as I must) for my dinners. This time around I felt far more…

  • 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…