Ann Loves Plants

Tag: garden

  • 2012: The Year of Entering the Garden with my Grandma Virginia

    A statue of St Francis in Grandma Virginia’s backyard circa the early 1980s. I have no idea what happened to him, but he stood beside a little water feature that never worked during my lifetime. I imagine Grandma and Grandpa made it when they built their midcentury ranch house together, long before Grandpa Amato passed…

  • Merry Christmas: Here’s to Planting the Seeds of Celebration

    Several years ago my husband and I pruned off the old Christmas Eve celebration I’d participated in annually with my family. To some this may seem harsh, but I’m a gardener and am optimistic about such things, because change is good, and it almost always means growth and renewal in a garden. An unfinished felt…