A soft day is what the Irish call a very very damp fog or a mizzle, which is a cross between a mist and a drizzle. I’d been dreaming of a nice soaking fall of rain for the garden and
Year: 2011
“The happiest days are when babies come.”
This direct quote from Melanie in Gone with the Wind sums up what Christmas means for me. I wrote last year about our little nativity scene that we put up under our Douglas fir each year. Yesterday I was out
Beet that!
Winter gardening in California seems to be split into two segments divided by December and January. If you get organized by mid September you can have a crop of winter veggies already growing and some harvested by Christmas. If you
The Eco Gardening Coach
Finally, after months of paperwork, brainstorming with friends on names, layouts and color-schemes, I’m ready to present my new business enterprise – The Eco Gardening Coach. I even have my own domain name and website – ecogardeningcoach.com. Here’s a glimpse
Pure and simple
Sometimes it’s just easier to quit fighting with Blogger and acquiesce to their templates and how they want to do things. A gremlin struck my blog. When? I’m not sure. But when I tried to fix the problem today, I
Happy Occasions in Hong Kong
It was with great delight that we headed back to Hong Kong, this time for the happy occasion of our niece’s wedding. (I know, I know, I’m not old enough to have a niece getting married!) Our previous trip to
Flashes of red
I’d never even seen a pomegranate until the Autumn of 1997. Granted that is 14 years ago, but to me it still feels relatively recent. Then, when we moved into this house, pomegranates were the first things that we harvested
Eco-management
We gardeners are all Eco-managers. We take our piece of the planet and we accelerate, sustain and then abruptly halt natural ecological cycles. Even non-gardeners do this, though they may not pay as much attention to it. Take Mr Lawnlover
Occupy … My house!
I do love having so much wildlife on my front door step, but this week I had a little more wildlife than I bargained for inside my front door – literally right inside the front door – A tiny dark
Little insect – big problem!
They got past immigration. They got got past customs. Heck, they even got past Hawkeye. These miniature invaders sound innocent enough, related as they are to the relatively harmless though annoying common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. That four-chromosomed little critter,