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There is a Privacy About Winter

By Ruth Stout There is a privacy about [winter] which no other season gives you ….. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, Quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. As featured onThe Daily…

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The No Work Garden It’s the birthday of garden author Ruth Stout, born on this day in 1884. Ruth wrote a number of garden books including the No Work Garden and Gardening Without Work. Here’s a sampling of her famous prose: “If you have the soul of a gardener, not for anything would you work…

June 14, 2019 Sunflowers, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ruth Stout, President Harding, G. K. Chesterton, Emily Dickinson, In Bloom by Clare Nolan, Photo Friday, and Making Pineapple Flowers

Are you planning to grow Sunflowers this year? Five years ago, Hans-Peter Schiffer toppled the Guinness World Record for the third year in a row – growing a sunflower that was 30’1″ tall! Over at the Facebook group for the show, you can check out a time-lapse video of sunflowers growing from seed to seed…