Staying ahead of myself
it is now mid-spring and I am in a familiar dilemma: staying ahead of myself. Gardening is a reciprocal relationship, I do...
The Long Long, Grey Grey, Cold Cold Winter of 2021-22
Rainshadow contributor Ann Candioto relishes in the end of winter and the start of gardening season.
Lately I’ve been thinking about a T-shirt, grey of...
The Philosophical Gardener: Seasonality
We have had a rather dark and stormy autumn here in the rainshadow; a good deal of the autumn color has been torn from...
The Philosophical Gardener: Boolbs?
Beverley Nichols, born 1898, was a reporter and author, in a variety of genres, in post WWII, mid-century Britain. He was something of a...
The Philosophical Gardener: Salad Days
References to one’s “salad days,” it seems, began with Shakespeare when he wrote it in a line for Cleopatra who...
Philosophical Gardener: Poseurs
Yes, one sees them now in supermarkets, bright red, big-bosomed fruits piled high in plastic boxes luring us to a summer fantasy...
The Philosophical Gardener: Peas
“The enemies of peas are few in number, but great in power. Chopped gorse sown with
the seed will prevent the ravages of mice,...