May 2010
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May 31st
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Planting Pumpkins on the Last Day of May
Today is the day. Honesty (Lunaria annua) is getting ripped up from around the willow tree in the front courtyard, and in its place I’m planting blue hubbard and orange pumpkins. Not sowing the seeds, but planting the plants. Let’s get the verbs straight so nobody is confused… and between the pumpkins I’m sticking loads of spider flowers (Cleome hassleriana) which make a...
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May 30th
“This morning the green fists of the peonies are getting ready to break my heart...”
– The opening lines to Mary Oliver’s poem, Peonies
May 29th
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“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes...”
– Abraham Lincoln
May 27th
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May 26th
“There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
May 20th
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May 20th
“I have no idea, I just work here.”
– This quote is from an anonymous woman I met on my last visit to a garden centre. She was snippy, apparently hated her job, and hadn’t a clue about plants… and no, she wasn’t joking - the conversation went something like this: “Well where did you find it?! Go check another...
May 20th
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May 19th
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“One of the fundamental purposes of the garden is to provide a place in which it...”
– Marc P. Keane - from page 128, entitled ’Maintenance,’ of his book Japanese Garden Design
May 19th
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“Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a...”
– Arthur Young (1741-1820) English Writer on Agriculture, Economics & Social Statistics People who come to the Castle often ask me why I dedicate so much time to a garden that doesn’t belong to me. I made and care for this garden not as a job but initially as a hobby - this changed over the...
May 18th
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