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Gratitude for Light

by Marjorie Harris In my climate, the hours of daylight are few, the number of sunny hours even fewer. We trudge through the gloom day after day, all through January and February. But when the sun does shine, it carries a magnificence, unlike any other time. Perhaps our gratitude for light makes it so, but…

January 19, 2021 Three Gorgeous Ways to Group Containers, Alice Eastwood, Carlotta Case Hall, The Magic of Light, Windcliff by Daniel J. Hinkley, and the Soapy State Flower of New Mexico: the Yucca

Today we celebrate the self-taught botanist who saved the San Francisco herbarium. We’ll also learn about the woman who helped describe the flora of Yosemite. We’ll hear a little passage about the magic of light. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a magnificent new book by a modern plant master: Dan Hinckley. And then we’ll…

When it Comes to Plants, Love Makes a Difference

“Plants are tender as little children and suffer quickly from any irregularity of diet and habit. Above all, they must not be kept awake late at night by bright gaslights burning around them.” October 2, 1940 On this day, a little verse was published in The Phoenix Star. This sweet little quip was at the…