December 30, 2012
Janet Macunovich and Steven Nikkila help you grow
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Happy New Year!
To kick off 2013, we bring you our new Quotations
library
In this issue we bring you a sampler of 20 great
quotes and images from our new Quotations library. We think you'll
enjoy the ideas and images at this season when reflection and
projection are both so fitting.
Meanwhile, we'll get back to summing up our first year of
website newsletters. As we start the new year of newsletters we
will let you know what we'll continue, what will change and what we
need to know from you to help keep it all growing.
In this 20-quote sampler:
We skimmed some of the best from the library of 290 quotations
and excerpts, with 170 images. Click to take a look at any of
these, and jump fom there to the full library as you wish!
From the chapter, Observations of
gardeners' nature:
From Life philosophy drawn from the
garden:
Drawn from the chapter, Planting:
Taken from our quotes about General garden
care:
From the chapter, Weeds:
From Watering:
A look into the chapter, Fertilizer:
A sampling from Tools:
From the chapter, Pruning:
Skimming from Bugs and animals:
A gem from Working smart:
From the chapter, Design:
From what's been said about Choosing
plants:
From the chapter, Vegetables:
One of the quotes from Trees:
A quote from the chapter, Wildflowers and
native plants:
From the chapter, Wildlife and
ecology:
A foray into Amazing facts:
From the chapter, Living in the
garden:
Looking at quotes from Seasons:
From the final chapter of the library, Children:
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Excerpts from the Quotations library
One becomes a gardener by becoming a
gardener.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting Garden
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He had heard about talking to plants
in the early 70's on radio 4 and thought it an excellent idea.
Although, talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley
did.
What he did was put the fear of God into them.
More precisely, the fear of Crowley.
In addition to which, every couple of months Crowley would pick
out a plant that was growing too slowly or succumbing to leaf wilt
or browning or just didn't look quite as good as the others, and he
would carry it around to all the other plants. 'Say Good bye to
your friend," he'd say to them. "He just couldn't cut it..."
Then he would leave the flat with the offending plant and return
an hour or so later with a large, empty flower pot which he would
leave somewhere conspicuously around the flat.
The plants were the most luxurious, verdant and beautiful in
London. Also, the most terrified.
- Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, in
Good Omens -
For more from the chapter, Observations
of gardeners' nature:
Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe
in life.
- Myron S. Kaufmann, in The Natural
Habitat Garden -
For more from the chapter, Life
philosophy:
A good gardener always plants three
seeds -- one for the bugs, one for the weather and one for
himself.
- Leo Aikman -
For more from the chapter, Planting:
If you
are late with your autumn work, as I invariably am, the tulip bulbs
will not pursue you with reproachful glances.
- Christopher Lloyd -
For more from the chapter, General garden
care:
Know
your weeds. Because, as the old saying goes:
It is always more powerful to curse it by name.
-Frances Kissinger -
For more from the chapter, Weeding:
Below: Poison ivy
Overwatering kills more house plants than under
watering.
- Roberta M Coughlin -
For more from the chapter, Watering:
The farmer's best fertilizer is in his
footprint.
- Anonymous -
For more from the chapter, Fertilizer:
"Your
wheelbarrow needs oil, it squeaks!"
"I know. Let it be. It drowns out the creaking of my joints."
- Steven Nikkila -
For more from the chapter, Tools:
If you cut a shrub back because it's just too
big, and it dies,
you haven't lost anything but a plant that couldn't live by your
rules.
- Janet Macunovich-
For more from the chapter, Pruning:
Above: Smoke bush becomes so
gnarly with repeated cut-backs, we can almost wish it wouldn't
grow back!
Plants
are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and
Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
For more from the chapter, Bugs and
animals:
If
someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel,
sit and watch. THAT's the right way to garden.
- Janet Macunovich -
For more from the chapter, Working
smart:
History is everything in gardening: With a site,
weather, a particular plant. It solves mysteries. And it's why,
when others say, "You can't do that!" you can know with deepest
certainty that you can.
- Janet Macunovich -
For more from the chapter, Design:
I cannot walk into our garden without
constantly being reminded
of the friends who have shared their plants.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
For more from the chapter, Choosing
plants:
Below: Purple locust,
Robinia hispida
Only two things that money can't buy, and
that's true love and homegrown tomatoes.
- Guy Clark, in his song
Homegrown Tomatoes -
From the chapter, Vegetables:
Any
fool can destroy trees, they cannot run away.
- John Muir -
Below: Burls on a trunk form an
"ent" face, and the flower of tulip poplar, Liriodendron
tulipifera.
Woodman, spare that tree!
Touch not a single bough!
In youth it sheltered me,
And I'll protect it now.
- George Pope Morris, in Woodman
Spare That Tree -
For more from the chapter, Trees:
With names like butterflyweed, milkweed,
ironweed, and Joe Pye Weed, you can be sure these plants were not
named by a marketing person.
- Neil Diboll, Prairie
Nursery -
For more from the chapter, Wildflowers and native
plants:
Below: Priaire dock
(Silphium terebinthinaceum) and Joe Pye (Eupatorium
purpureum)
We can plant to suit the needs of the birds and
other wildlife that find a haven and a habitat on our home ground,
and we can understand that to do so is a moral dictate, not a
personal whim.
- Allen Lacy, in The Inviting
Garden -
For more from the chapter, Wildlife and
ecology:
We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's bad name in
modern times. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as
goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic
reaction.
- Janet Macunovich -
For more from the chapter, Amazing
facts:
Below: Goldenrod flower. A bee
collects the sticky pollen, which is heavy and meant to be carred
by insects rather than float. It is not an airborne
irritant.
In
my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the
breaking of new blooms.
-Truman Capote -
For more from the chapter, Living in the
garden:
Below: Serviceberry flower
(Amelanchier sp.)
Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive
enough
to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.
- Rosemary Verey, in The Garden in
Winter -
For more from the chapter, Seasons:
Take them into the garden young and at your eye
level.
Nature will always be part of their world view.
- Janet & Steven -
For more from the chapter, Children:
