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THE ADEQUATE GARDENER: COLUMN NINE
by Jane Eaton Hamilton
The Adequate Gardener is pooped.
GARDENING BY THE BOOK: MY CRASH, BURN, AND REGENERATION
by Teresa Youngblood
What do you do when having too much information can be more intimidating than none at all?
BOOK REVIEWS
"The English Garden magazine", "What Grows Here?", and "Gardening in Eden."
The Seasons
Summer Solstice
Here are some very very old-school solstice celebrations from the pagans.
Autumn Equinox
For those who celebrate autumn, it is the time to say thank-you and goodbye to all that is summer. Harvest festivals and traditions are different everywhere. But they usually involve celebrating things we usually just scarf down in front of the T.V.
Observations & Knowledge
Fruits and Herbs: Our Favorite Fragrant Foods
The science behind the seduction of smell.
I Say Potato, You Say Solanum tuberosum
Ever wondered why plants have Latin names? Make sense of this secret code with our introduction to Binomial Nomenclature.
The Perfect Flower
Learn science the fun way with this interactive diagram that shows the parts of the flower.
Super Plant: Agave
Like superheroes, they kick ass for humanity, not because they want to, but because they just happen to have that ability.
Back to School with Plants
Summer is almost past. Does back to school mean back to residence living? If your dorm room isn’t quite cutting it, then maybe a plant can assist you in pursuit of your sanity.
Part1: Dorm Plants: Beyond Their Beauty or Pleasing Appearance
Part2: 8 Easy Care Dorm Plants
Commentary
Thou Shalt Not Fuss
by Jeffery W. Petersen
Relax. The rules of gardening are made to be broken.
The Adequate Gardener
by Jane Eaton Hamilton
Nobody has to be the perfect gardener. How one woman learned it the hard way.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Two
The adequate gardener buys three.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Three
The adequate gardener contemplates compost.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Four
The adequate gardener puts her garden to bed.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Five
The adequate gardener climbs her clematis.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Six
Fine Gardening Comes Calling.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Seven
The Adequate Gardener Praises Annuals.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Eight
The Adequate Gardener Praises the Status Quo.
The Adequate Gardener -- Column Nine
The Adequate Gardener is pooped.
The Perfect Garden or "How I Learned to Relax and Start Enjoying My Garden"
Is gardening only for the rich? Are garden magazines plant porn? Is the garden a fantastical construct that reflects our own distorted perception of nature?
Seeds of Revolution: Renaming Plants for a Lazy Generation
Plant names a PR spin doctor would invent if hired to sell gardening as `the new rock 'n' roll' for real.
The Lab
Wild Apple Taste Off
Beate hits the road with a cup of coffee in the search of the best tasting wild apples. They make good apple sauce and they don't cost a dime.
Catnip Test Off
Cats are so lucky. It takes just a sniff of catnip to get them feeling wonderful, whereas we humans must rely on more invasive and costly contraband materials to receive the same effects.
Can 'Cool It Now' Save This Plant?
Can the soothing melody of a mid 80's dance hit save a plant on the verge of death? We put it to the test to see for ourselves.
Miscelleny
A Little Something About Big Pumpkins
The heaviest pumpkin grown this year weighed 1140 pounds. How do they get the pumpkins so big?
Panic Suburbs
Most of all, it is the lawns which are sinister. Fuji green and expansive, they are a visual relief to the freeway and its accompanying tunnel vision.
Lawns To Gardens
People everywhere are turfing their lawns and putting in gardens. Is the lawn losing its status as "the" icon of North American living? Part 2 in this series focusses on the logistics of carrying out your own conversion.
Flora-logues
Flowers of the Rock: a Flora-logue of Newfoundland
Get a glimpse at the indigenous plant life of this Maritime province on Canada's east coast.
Lake Huron Shoreline
A popular Canadian tradition--going to the cottage on May two four, eh, results in a flora-logue of the Saugeen Region along the shore of Lake Huron.
Mexico 2000: A Flora-logue of Oaxaca Mexico
A photo essay by Gayla Sanders examining her last trip to Oaxaca Mexico.
A Flora-logue of South Africa
Soaking up the flora. A summer spent working in South Africa yields these observations.
Interviews
Gardening on the Edge of a Continent
Clare McIntyre interviews two women living in Newfoundland, Canada on the trials and rewards of gardening on "The Rock".
A Beautiful Watering can
Matt White has designed a watering can like nothing you've ever seen before. With almost no gardening experience, he has created a very functional device for gardeners.
Wilda & Lois
An interview with two women who have been growing their own food for decades.
In this Section
Plant Links & Resources A listing of online plant buying and knowledge.
Reviews Books, software, magazines, tools, music. We weed through the crap so you don't have to.
The Seasons Learn about the solstices.
Observations & Knowledge The science and discovery of the plant world.
Commentary Real people share their thoughts and feelings as gardeners.
The Lab We provide answers to your burning "scientific" questions.
Flora-logues Personal accounts of places and plants.
Interviews We talk to real people who grow plants or work in the field.
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