Tag: garden writing
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Garden Bloggers Fling, 2011 (Seattle): A Confessional Introduction to an Event Long Past
So, as winter creeps into our lives, my posts from the fling are on their way. In anticipation of the great Northwest Flower & Garden Show—the fantastic winter event in Seattle that my husband and I attend annually for Valentine’s Day—I am posting these to not only get myself excited for next spring, but as a…
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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…
Ann Loves Plants 