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Gardening Rocks 2012 Advent: Day 25
We started this advent with Amanda Palmer, and what better year to end it with Amanda Palmer? In my mind, 2012 will stand out as a roaring rollercoaster of a year. There were highs, and there were...
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And the Winner Is…
By random drawing, the winner of the Gardening Rocks 2012 Advent book giveaway is Susan, the very last commenter in the contest! Big congrats to Susan, HUGE thanks to everyone who commented, and if...
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Pin It to Win It
This long, pinnable strip of pictures is either a sign of the apocalypse, or that my publisher, Timber Press, is doing a contest on Pinterest this week wherein you’ll have yet another chance to win my...
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Five Big Questions: Margaret Roach
Update: Congrats to commenter Lizzie, who won a copy of Margaret’s book! Thanks to everyone who entered! Margaret Roach and I first bonded over a mutual love of a wild plant obscure in cultivation:...
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2012 Year in Review
January’s over, but the dust is still settling on 2012. Lots of new plants are braving their first winter outdoors here, and I’m getting ready to do a string of six speaking gigs in five weeks in...
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On a Jet Plane
I’m spending a lot of time on planes, in airports, and on the road these days, traveling around to give lectures to promote the book. You can find out where I’m going to be here, and if you’re in the...
View ArticleWhat I’m Doing On My Summer “Vacation”
And I say “vacation” because what? Vacation? Ha! Oh, ha ha. Good one. It’s a busy, busy summer so far, and I’m not complaining, because it’s busy with phenomenal things. You may not see many posts from...
View ArticleMovin’ On Up
Hello! If you’re still lurking around these parts, this is a quick heads up that I’m going to be blogging over here from now on, and I hope you’ll join me. It’s still a work in progress, but any blog...
View Article#1. The Year 2013
2013, you were a doozie. What to make of 2013? I’m not sure where to start. In 2013, I finished my second book, still surprised I’d published a first one. I made forays into radio, a medium I hope to...
View Article#2. Bonaventure Cemetery
You’ll know it if you’ve ever read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. I finally got the opportunity to see Savannah, Georgia, this past December. It’s been on my big list of life stuff to do for...
View Article#3. Palm Sedge
I have a weakness for all things palmate, so it’s sort of tragic I live in the Northeast, where few actual palms would dare to tread. The temperature here this morning was 1 degree. One. Degree. Given...
View Article#4. Barcelona Graffiti
I think graffiti, at its best, is an artistic representation of a city’s restless, subconscious energy. NYC graffiti is brash, San Francisco graffiti is beautiful and socially inquisitive, Buenos Aires...
View Article#5. Longleaf Pine
Summers when I was in high school, we would drive to a lake nearby to go waterskiing. Picture a baking, sunny day, driving the back roads of South Mississippi, the windows down, heat waves rising from...
View Article#6. Bottle Bear
I was at the Elephant’s Trunk Flea Market in New Milford, Connecticut, with friends, but not really in the market for anything. I wasn’t sure what I was doing with our house, I didn’t need to be...
View Article#7. ‘Red Dragon’ fleece flower
This is one of my favorite plants. ‘Red Dragon’ fleece flower (Persicaria microcephala ‘Red Dragon’) earns its cultivar name. I think there’s something very reptilian, in general, about Persicaria, but...
View Article#8. Filbert Steps
San Francisco is a city of stairways. Some are stone or brick steps built into hillsides, and others are built wooden steps with decked landings. The Filbert Steps is the one I know best, and it’s a...
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