I came across this excerpt about what wabi-sabi is (which I shortened slightly) on Ian’s blog. It is quoted from Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren: Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent and incomplete. It is a beauty of things modest and humble. It is a beauty of things unconventional….
For all you pollinator gardeners out there, check out all the blooms still supporting the critters you love in November! They’re in the Pollinator Garden on the College Park campus of the University of Maryland, (Zone 7B), where we still haven’t had a killing freeze. So maybe in a normal year (though really, what’s normal…
A while back I ranted about the inclusion of my alma mater, Ohio’s Oberlin College, in its list of Most Beautiful College Campuses. So let’s pause and ask what makes a college beautiful, anyway? In perusing other such lists I found one that described a beautiful campus as “Picturesque natural features such as green spaces,…
We recently visited some friends for an amazing supper. And were touched to be told, when we admired their sitting room, that they had removed their television so that it would look better. It’s the kind of thing I’d actually do myself for visitors, but I don’t usually have the bottle to say so. I’m…
It took a while for me to realize that almost all the gardens we were visiting in and around Madison, Wisconsin, had one feature in common. It finally sunk in as we were admiring the serene – yet striking – Asian-inspired prospects at the Brazill/Golbach garden Saturday afternoon (above and below). It was then that…
Over the past couple months, I’ve been more of a garden gawker than usual. In June, I was one of a group of garden communicators touring private gardens in Madison, WI. And last weekend I browsed a couple local garden walks. In Western New York, we have 13 smaller garden walks in area towns and…
In small townhouse gardens like mine, I’ve found that fences not only make good neighbors – they help create “garden rooms,” the sense of enclosure that makes you want to spend time there and enjoy some privacy. Or at least the feeling of privacy. The role of fences came home to me recently when one…
During the first years in my townhouse, this was the dull-dull backdrop of my front garden, with old grey siding, black shutters and metal chairs, and a forest green umbrella. You can’t see the pots here but believe me, they were all in similarly dull colors. I guess I wanted to fit in, and I…
My Takoma Park, Md. home in 1985, the year I bought it. My recent post about the attractive fence my next-door neighbors installed included a gratuitous but ardent dig at chainlink, the type of fence they didn’t choose, thankfully. That reminded of the home I bought in 1985 that DID sport a chainlink around the…
It’s a sombre time in the UK as most of you will be aware. Perhaps time for us gardeners to think about reflection in our gardens. Whatever various worthy people might like to tell us, gardeners know that a garden is not simply a place of restoration and healing joy. Gardens fill us full of…
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