Field Trip! Leigh on 15 Aug 2010
If you are interested in welcoming songbirds, butterflies and other wildlife to your garden, yard and land as I am here at Larrapin— you want to hear what Doug Tallamy has to say. His is author of Bringing Nature Home: How to Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, a book that enlightened my planting choices a [...]
The Reference Shelf Leigh on 14 Mar 2010
I can’t talk about favorite garden books without mentioning Gaia’s Garden, 2nd Edition, by Toby Hemenway. Since I posted on the book back in December, I’ve copied that post below in case you missed it. Enjoy! Despite the relentless heavy clouds and mist, I’m going out to the new garden spot to put in onion [...]
The Reference Shelf Leigh on 03 Mar 2010
Great Garden Companions by Sally Jean Cunningham
If I had to be shipwrecked on a desert island with only three garden books on edibles, what would they be?? OK, so gardening on this rocky Ozark hilltop isn’t *exactly* like a desert island, but it can feel close at times! My #1 favorite would be Sally Jean [...]
Friends at Larrapin Leigh on 01 Jul 2009
I’ll admit it: When I first became a gardener I thought folks who were so into “native” plants were…er, a little stuffy. I mean really, with native plants populating the wild landscape everywhere else, what could it matter what I planted in my own yard? Ahhh, my innocent ignorance.
It was Sarah Stein’s book “Noah’s Garden” [...]
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