The Reference Shelf Leigh on 31 Dec 2009
My favorite garden book of the moment—and favorite Xmas gift received this year!— is Gaia’s Garden by Toby Hemenway (2nd edition). I love this book and am SO glad Hemenway did a 2nd edition. I owned the first edition and really like the plant lists, but just didn’t enjoy the text the way I do [...]
Out In The Garden Leigh on 31 Dec 2009
Next winter’s warmth
The snow has melted away from the white Christmas we had here in Northwest Arkansas, but we’re still having variations on cold precipitation. Not exactly the dreaded “wintry mix,” as the Noaa weather report often calls for, but yet another of the endless combinations that winter can bring. Back in NC, we made [...]
Out In The Garden Leigh on 27 Dec 2009
White Oak in the Snow
Happy Holidays everyone from the still-snowy hilltop in the Ozarks where Larrapin Garden lives. I hope your celebration days were delightful. Mine couldn’t have been better—a white Christmas with warm woodstove, great food and the best company…. A lot to fill a gal with gratitude! This is my first White Christmas. [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 19 Dec 2009
Flashback- Ice Storm Jan 2009
What fun to get requests for post topics from those wonderful folks who comment on blogs!! Thanks Stephanie and Jen for asking more about making homemade suet blocks, or “bird cakes” as we call them around here at Larrapin. I tried and tried to find photos of this process that I [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 12 Dec 2009
Once the weather gets cold, the woodpeckers reappear on the suet feeder. With the chilly week we’ve had, it’s rare to look out the kitchen window at the suet feeder and NOT see a woodpecker on it. Above, our adored red-head, the Yellow-Bellied Woodpecker. Occasionally, at the right angle, it’s visible how he got his [...]
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