by Jeannie | Jan 18, 2018 | Design & Garden Tips
Sometimes I refer to myself as a “Garden Evangelist.” It’s a fetching little nickname and it’s true because I’m on a quest to convert good folk to see the light and come on over to digging, planting and growing. But there’s more to this. I believe, to my core, that...
by Jeannie | Jun 1, 2017 | Design & Garden Tips
Dead Wood… I perfected the fine art of eye rolling when I was thirteen. So charming. I’m guessing I came to this expression in response to something my father said when I thought I knew way more than he about the world and that he was purposefully...
by Jeannie | May 11, 2017 | Design & Garden Tips
A few years ago I was deep into the spring clean up and had hauled many rounds of debris to the curb to await borough collection–some stacked in piles, the rest in refuse cans. I knew the truck was close by because Katie gave me a three-bark alert. I continued...
by Jeannie | Apr 6, 2017 | Design & Garden Tips
Diana Krall, a jazz musician I like, sings a song of this title. It opens like this: “East of the sun and west of the moon We’ll build a dream house of love, dear Close to the sun in the day Near to the moon at night We’ll live in a lovely way, dear Sharing our love...
by Jeannie | Mar 30, 2017 | Design & Garden Tips
It started about fifteen years ago; I became religious about a 3pm quitting time. I had to do it because once the garden season came on, I was out like a shot to get as much done as possible in one day, working from sun up to sun down. This after spending months...
by Jeannie | Dec 29, 2016 | Design & Garden Tips
According to mythology, the Roman God, Janus, is the god of beginnings, transitions, and in ancient art and architecture presides over doorways and gates as a symbol for this. So appropriate, then, that we have our first month named for him. I have a friend who spends...