Ann Loves Plants

Tag: garden

  • Vita Sackville-West on the Humble or Sensitive Plant

    Last night I couldn’t sleep so I grabbed a book from the bedside bookcase. I’ve been reading Sackville-West’s In Your Garden Again off and on for the past few weeks and it has all kinds of things I always mean to mention here but, by the time I’ve finally fallen asleep and come to in the…

  • Things Fall Apart, Rereading the Garden

    Our willow arbor is beginning to fall apart. I was introduced to the book Things Fall Apart by the Nigerian author Chinua Achebe many years ago when I was a freshman at Lewis & Clark College. Surprisingly, the book was not assigned, but instead, it was recommended to me by my boyfriend at the time,…