Winterspring
When television first came to our neighborhood in the early 50’s there was a puppet on the Howdy Doody Show whose name was Princess...
Spider Sticks
A spider stick is any handy light branch or stem which you have stripped of its leaves and twigs, cut to three feet or...
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,...