Dirty Thoughts: A Gardening Life
Reveries of a Solitary Gardener
Friday, July 30, 2010
Tulpenmanie, Redux
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Gardeners are fickle sorts. Yes, fickle. Not to mention easily prone to seduction. We are tempted by pretty flowers, new "shinier...
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Other People's Gardens: Belgium and the Presence of Absence
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Virginia Woolf mused in Orlando that clothes “have more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world...
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Reunions
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Viet and I met several Americans (all "young" women--twenties and thirties) on our return flight home, all traveling alone save fo...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Other People's Gardens: The White Garden at Sissinghurst
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Most gardeners, I believe, fantasize about larger plots of land on which to work their magic. Most gardeners, I believe, would be ecstatic t...
Other People's Gardens: Amsterdam and the Netherlands
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To remark that the Dutch love their gardens is akin to observing that the British love their tea. One need only think of the famous Keukenho...
Other People's Gardens: Sissinghurst
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Yesterday morning, Tuesday, 20 July, I prepared for the pilgrimage. These preparations, however, were of the more mundane sort: gathering th...
Monday, July 19, 2010
Other People's Gardens: Luxembourg City and Clervaux
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On Saturday the 10th we took a slightly less than 1 hour train ride to Clervaux in the north of Luxembourg near the Belgian-German border....
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