Lori's Blog

Pond Slogging - The Sequel

There comes a point in a project, like the eye of the hurricane, where peace descends upon you and you realize that the optimist was right....every...

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Learning the Value of Scale in a Garden Plan

First of all...to be honest the word 'plan' is used with tongue in cheek... I have a plan each time I start a new project, but plans always...

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Tags: Spring faux pond redo renew revision

Fern Cobble

A friend asked me what a Fern Cobble was... here I go again fishing back into my geriatric memory... I knew the subject in detail thirty-odd...

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revisionist history...

When will I learn my lesson? I start something with lots of ideas in my head...and one by one they develop a flaw or a hook or they are suddenly...

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pond slogging

I've heard that we should view setbacks as opportunities...With the untimely demise of my many little fishes came an opportunity to clean, repair...

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Tags: pond re work

pond ecology...

After wintering my fishes successfully for the last five years, this crazy winter finally handed me a challenge I did not meet very well. It...

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Seek and ye shall find....

I have asked around on this site and elsewhere, having seen mention of trials for a red delphinium... I knew I had not dreamt it...so today when...

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legacy

Whenever we see change coming it's natural for us to ignore it until the change is iminent... but I was thinking about the future of my garden....

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"Organic" fertilizers

It's the old Buyer Beware caveat...In trying to be good stewards of our earth we may fall into a trap of good intentions with regard to what...

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Why I am an organic gardener

I've already said in my postings that my philosophy of gardening is laissez faire...but that it too simplistic...I've been reading and searching...

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Wetland Garden

The last thing I would have expected is to become obsessed by bog plants...but recently the plant catalogues have presented tantalizing pictures...

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Tags: bog plants

How do I know this is good compost?

What does it mean if it smells? or if it's too wet?
I had questions and decided to read-up. Found a number of publications... most down-to-earth...

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