I have always found thick woods a little intimidating, for they are so secret and enclosed. You may seem alone but you are not, for there are always …

- Thalassa Cruso

Scents bring memories, and many memories bring nostalgic pleasure. We would be wise to plan for this when we plant a garden.

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The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind.

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Today I am sure no one needs to be told that the more birds a yard can support, the fewer insects there will be to trouble the gardener the following…

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I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or …

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Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants d…

- Thalassa Cruso

March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and ch…

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One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

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Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or "fantastically wet," for no on…

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