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My blog has moved! 24 Jun 2006 | 10:19 am
And I hope that everyone will take a minute to update their bookmarks, because I am finally making the inevitable move from Blogger to TypePad. I'm also rolling all three of my blogs (Dirt, Humboldt H...
Welcome, San Francisco Chronicle Readers! 18 Jun 2006 | 05:15 am
If you're coming here to check out the blogs you read about in the San Francisco Chronicle, welcome. Settle in; have a look around. I'm blogging regularly on a new group blog, GardenRant. You can fin...
In Praise of Small Magazines 17 Jun 2006 | 07:07 am
When I saw Sign of the Shovel's post about her husband's new book, I realized that it was about time for me to employ a little crass commercialism in support of my own spouse's venture. Scott has bee...
Garden Rant Takes Over the World 13 Jun 2006 | 03:57 pm
A few months ago, I started talking with Susan Harris of Takoma Gardener and Michele Owens of Sign of the Shovel about a modest little idea we had to stage a horticultural revolt. We were tired of wha...
Holy Bat Shit, Lady Hillingdon! 12 Jun 2006 | 01:14 pm
Well folks, this is it. This is as good as it gets. The garden is at its absolute peak right now. There are some late summer salvias that are not in bloom yet, but apart from that, everything is out o...
The Future of Heronswood 12 Jun 2006 | 06:27 am
Anne Raver, writing about Heronswood in the New York Times, has a bit more to say about the future of the gardens themselves. "Mr. Ball said Heronswood's gardens-- 5 1/2 acres of the garden, as disti...
The Opinionated Multitasker 12 Jun 2006 | 05:41 am
Thanks to the Houston Chronicle for choosing Dirt as its favorite opinionated garden blog, and to the Sacramento Bee for...uh...choosing Dirt as its favorite opinionated garden blog. Green Space: Bes...
Nursery Too Interesting, Catalog Too Smart, Must Be Closed Down 2 Jun 2006 | 05:30 am
If you haven't been to Heronswood Nursery in Kingston, WA, it's too damn late. The owner, Dan Hinkley, sold it to Burpee, and they have--yep, you guessed it--shut 'er down. Brilliant plantsman Dan Hi...
The Garden, Part Two 1 Jun 2006 | 07:35 am
The chickens are also making inroads into the side garden (and here's Bess in the path). I had intended for this to be an all-culinary garden, with artichokes, sage, apples, rosemary, edible flowers, ...
Chicken-friendly plants 31 May 2006 | 02:12 pm
Here's the back yard looking yummy, as it does this time of year. This is the north side of the house, which means that even though it's an open, unshaded space, the house tends to cast a long shadow ...
