“Whether moved by rivers, held in lakes and aquifers, or suspended in giant ice sheets, freshwater is a precious resource to revere and respect, not least o...
“The one thing of which we are certain, in an uncertain universe, is that energy is never lost. It is transformed, but it never disappears.”
— The Prof...
“[T]o me the idea of American gardens remains undefined. The extremes of garden design, and what is possible to grow there, is fascinating to English eyes c...
“So what are we appreciating in a garden? The details or the effect? It’s the alchemy of gardens again — it’s woe to anyone who wants something else in life...
“When the ice of winter holds the house in its rigid grip, when curtains are drawn early against that vast frozen waste of landscape, almost like a hibernat...
Literary Gardener host Rhonda Nowak talks with Rhianna Simes, co-director of Cultivate Oregon and co-founder of Verdant Phoenix, an urban mini-farm and educatio...
“I looked out of the window at the neglected and overgrown bushes. Lavender, and was that rosemary? And were the others all herbs? I realized that I had lan...
“I’m afraid I have a real challenge ahead for you. A nearby farmer is readying his fields to plant winter crops, mainly onion sets, but also cabbages and be...
Editor’s note:
This is one in a series of stories about women gardeners in the Rogue Valley.
“It is hard to open yourself up to new experiences if y...
“When we sow a seed, we plant a narrative of future possibility. It is an action of hope. Not all the seeds we sow will germinate, but there is a sense of s...
Fall is a time to enjoy the harvest of summer, but don’t hang up your trowel and pull off your gloves just yet — September through November is the best time to ...
“I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia,...
“I want to explore the ways this field is a more viable and creative career path for women than ever before and how the plant-work world is demonstrating gr...
“Perhaps if we write well enough about our endangered coasts and forests, deserts and streams, marshes and mountain lakes, we might see the world clearly en...
“We hiked in baked-potato-hot, ankle-deep ash that blew eerily in the wind like shed snakeskins to finish off dying wildfires by stirring and cooling the mo...
