Cold Climate Gardening » Meditations

When we first moved here, a bridge across the creek was a fantasy, something that might happen someday if I somehow came into a lot of money. But this year, something changed. Actually, probably ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2016/12/30/dreaming-up-a-bridge/

We live in a valley, and while we are still waiting for the sun to shine on our house, we see it illuminating the hillside behind us, especially as the sun’s angle changes as we approach the wi...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2015/10/27/in-appreciation-of-frost/

What a dark fall and early winter this has been, cold too, now. Hal Borland was right when he wrote that ‘as the day lengthens, the cold strengthens.’ This morning is a brief reprieve, grey a...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2015/01/16/winter-bones-lilactree-farm-garden-notes-no-1-2015/

Our guest author ponders what havoc this winter may have wrought. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather,...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2014/03/31/what-treasures-have-been-stolen-by-this-winter/

The weather has been glorious. Perfectly blue skies providing a backdrop as the leaves change to their brilliant autumnal colors. It makes my heart sing–and mourn.Not because winter is coming, ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/10/04/autumn-mourning/

Gardening experience, for the most part, is accrued bit by bit, as decisions are made to do this chore before the other, plants die and we know why–or we don’t–and mental notes are made abo...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2013/04/13/garden-epiphanies/

Why do I garden? Why does an artist paint? Why does a pianist spend days practicing for an hour long concert? The truth is, I don’t know why I garden. I don’t know why I have an affinity for ...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2009/11/24/why-i-garden/

The Juneberries started blooming a week ago. They have such a short-lived but ethereal beauty that it just about breaks my heart even as it soars. When you have acreage, as we do, you find yourse...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2009/05/03/the-juneberry-room/

After reading about some of these so-called remedies in Jeff Gillman’s first book, The Truth About Garden Remedies: What Works, What Doesn’t, and Why, it’s gotten me wondering what it is th...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2008/02/19/garden-remedies-whats-the-appeal/

Not too long ago I was ruminating on the possible reasons why more older gardeners aren’t blogging. Besides all the reasons I mentioned in that post, there was also a more personal reason for t...

https://www.coldclimategardening.com/2007/12/14/why-arent-there-more-younger-gardeners/