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I’m not into ‘trigger warnings’ and the suchlike, but this article is going to cover the challenging subject of mental health and its effect on gardeners.

It’s easy to shrug mental health issues as being a sort of modern disease of the young, but consider this: our brains control our entire body, consciously and unconsciously, and we know how other parts of ou...


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Here in Greenbelt, Maryland, my home of 14 years, the celebration of Labor Day is the highlight of the year. (Fitting for a town built during FDR’s administration to house workers.) Imagine


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I just paid a hefty price to have a 14” caliper Acer miyabei ‘State Street’ removed. Were I a smarter person, this could have been avoided. Or, at least, less busy. Multiple signs were ignored. Many opportunities were missed. It was, I must admit, the result of me being me–a person who makes every mistake at least twice. Often three times.


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Wendell Berry died at home in Port Royal, Kentucky, on August 31st. The poet, novelist, essayist, and Mad Farmer lived along the Kentucky River. He was 92.

Wendell Berry, Henry County in the early 1970s. James Baker Hall photo. Courtesy of the James Baker Hall Photographic Archive. ...


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When winter begins to end with the snowdrops, I start looking forward. And then winter drags on a bit as far as flowers are concerned, so I go on, looking forward. People in the garden world start celebrating a very small group of plants and it all becomes very repetitious, because at that time of year there only IS a small group of plants. So we look forward.


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