Ann Loves Plants

Tag: Alcea

  • 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…

  • Stopping to Smell the Roses

    Sometimes it is difficult to write about gardening when you are chronically unwell or injured. After suffering my third serious fall in four months, I am in this position right now. Two of the falls occurred here at home, in my own garden, and the other happened when I was walking beside a river in…