Gardening With Nature

Recently, I received a comment to this blog chastising me for failing to give credit for a piece of artwork that appears here. I would have responded directly, but the commenter apparently wished to appear anonymously.
So I’ll respond here. I think the commenter brings up a troubling issue – one that’s concerned me throughout my [...]

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Two weeks ago, we moved to a new garden. I vowed – well actually I didn’t quite vow – I thought it would be a great idea – to chronicle my co-creation with Nature in the new garden. So we could all see it evolve together. Maybe even make some comments.
I’m already behind schedule. So [...]

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I received a personal revelation this morning – one that completely pulled together my vision, mission, skills, and experience into a single direction that could serve me for a very long time.
My purpose, as I see it now, is to facilitate the uniting of the human world and the world of nature.
It’s been a rough [...]

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Last week, some plants left.
At least one had been with me more than ten years. Each is connected to me by a story.
When I got the message from Nature that this group was leaving, I made arrangements to give them to my daughter, and quickly scurried around to make them ready. I was entirely engaged [...]

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The day I received the message to step out of the current flow of accepted landscaping dogma is one I’ll never forget.
I was to meet a good friend as his home in a mobile home park. Now my friend is a plant guy – chlorophyll running in his veins – so you can imagine the [...]

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There’s a lot of confusion in gardening these days.
We know gardening AGAINST Nature doesn’t work. At least we’re getting a bad taste from it. Big ag, big tractors, poisoning unwanted plants and bugs, and genetic engineering don’t contribute anything to health, joy, or life.
There’s a lot of gardening LIKE Nature coming on. We’re composting, mulching, [...]

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It has felt as though things were not working between me and Nature. That’s putting it too strongly. Maybe it’s more like things were not working perfectly.
Dead leaves bring me down. I feel guilty – like I should have “done something.” And as we prepare to give up our home and garden and move on, [...]

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