Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “You still grow annuals?” I was visiting a friend’s garden and I happened to mention that I’d forgotten to thin my annual poppies, so now I was in jeopardy of losing the entire dell, and my friend, he of the upscale collector garden on the nice side of town, …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Fine Gardening commissioned an article on poppies, and they wanted to fly up to Vancouver to photograph mine.” Joy and I started gardening with one proviso: We could garden our little hearts out, landscaping and tilling every inch of our 120 foot by 33 foot lot into beds and …
Guest post by Jane Eaton Hamilton “Doesn’t anyone just take it easy anywhere at any time anymore? Pass me a beer. I never studied Latin. I just want to grow plants.” I’m that frustrated, really. I’m climbing a braid of tangled clematis like it’s Rapunzel’s hair. This one’s a Clematis montana (what’s the story with …