The thought of weeding conjures up all sorts of reactions from people. There are weeding haters, weeding lovers and an entire range of folks somewhere in between – in the toleration zone. And the basic fact, no matter how you feel about it, if you keep a garden there is weeding to be done. 5 [...]
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March 15, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
Filed under: Compost, Educate, Garden Love, Tips
Social Tagging: Edible Weeds • Is there such thing as a good weed? • Weeds as compost • Weeds as Mulch • What is a weed?
February 12, 2013 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
Filed under: DO, Garden Love, Grow, Organic, Tips
Social Tagging: Get it Right • Monsanto • Organic Garden • Roundup
This was insane. Giant, keg sized bottles of Roundup in my local store. Double the trouble for one low price! At least on the front end. But on the back end – as far as I’m concerned – is pandora’s box of chemical warfare disguised as a helpful, make-your-life-simple remedy for battling anything unwanted. My [...]
February 16, 2012 by Emily Murphy · 1 Comment
Filed under: BEE, DISCOVER, DO, Garden Love, Grow, Ideas, Inspired
Social Tagging: Beauty and Utility • feed yourself • Gardens for food and beauty • Grow Flowers • OPIUM POPPY • Papaver somniferum
Filed under: BEE, DISCOVER, DO, Garden Love, Grow, Ideas, Inspired
Social Tagging: Beauty and Utility • feed yourself • Gardens for food and beauty • Grow Flowers • OPIUM POPPY • Papaver somniferum
I started my New Year’s resolution early, direct seeding these poppies, Papaver somniferum, in October. I’m embarrassed to admit it, but they’ve been on “my must” plant list for over 20 years. Pathetic, maybe. Horribly distracted, probably. I was botanizing common garden weeds with taxonomy friends when they first caught my attention. They were [...]
October 27, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Garden Love, Nature
Social Tagging: Fall Maples • Seasons and Me • Seasons Frame Seasons • Winter Garden Preparation
Filed under: BEE, Garden Love, Nature
Social Tagging: Fall Maples • Seasons and Me • Seasons Frame Seasons • Winter Garden Preparation
The crazy, inexplicable tug of fall is here. I love it. In fact, I’m in a quandary. For all my love of spring and my need for green, I must say, I couldn’t do it without fall (and winter for that matter). It would be cheating wouldn’t it? Having only spring and summer weather all [...]
April 10, 2011 by Emily Murphy · 1 Comment
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Ideas, Plans, Planting, Profiles
Social Tagging: Everything British • garden design • Gardens to Visit in the UK • Gertrude Jekyll Planting Philosophy • Harold Nicolson • Kent • Virginia Woolf • Vita Sackville-West • William Robinson
Filed under: DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Ideas, Plans, Planting, Profiles
Social Tagging: Everything British • garden design • Gardens to Visit in the UK • Gertrude Jekyll Planting Philosophy • Harold Nicolson • Kent • Virginia Woolf • Vita Sackville-West • William Robinson
We were on holiday in the UK this very month last year visiting friends. There wasn’t much time to research points of interest before leaving, in typical fashion, we planned to travel only weeks before departing. However, I’d been there before and quickly formed a must-do list. Visiting gardens was on the top. Sissinghurst Castle, [...]
March 16, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Garden Love, Grow
Social Tagging: Annie's Annual and Perennials • Annie's Annuals • Get out there plant fanatic • Grow Plants • iPhone Photos • Plant Geek
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, DO, Garden Love, Grow
Social Tagging: Annie's Annual and Perennials • Annie's Annuals • Get out there plant fanatic • Grow Plants • iPhone Photos • Plant Geek
I checked out Annie’s Annuals website before making the journey to her Richmond, CA nursery. One of the first bits to pop off her home page is a quote that reads: “A trip to Annie’s Annuals nursery in Richmond is for true plant fanatics what a religious pilgrimage is to the devout believer.” -Barbara Wood [...]
January 26, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Perspective
Social Tagging: Cumbria • England • Geometric Beauty • Historical Gardens • Historical Topiary Gardens • Levens Hall Gardens • Low Maintenance • Low Maintenance Gardening • MC Escher • Topiary • Topiary Gardens of Europe • UK
Filed under: Art, DESIGN, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Gardens, Perspective
Social Tagging: Cumbria • England • Geometric Beauty • Historical Gardens • Historical Topiary Gardens • Levens Hall Gardens • Low Maintenance • Low Maintenance Gardening • MC Escher • Topiary • Topiary Gardens of Europe • UK
The words “low” and “maintenance” are never uttered together when discussing this garden. Just a few snips and tucks. Possibly the antithesis of modern culture and expectations, where “fast food” gardening is a requirement. The topiary garden at Levens Hall, South Cumbria, UK date back to 1694. The original design enduring these 300+ years. Dutch [...]
October 31, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Habitat
Social Tagging: Alcea rosea • coevolution • darn good • Design with Hollyhocks • frame the space • habitat • High Mountain Gardening • Hollyhocks • low water use • loyal partnership • miraculous • plant
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardens, Habitat
Social Tagging: Alcea rosea • coevolution • darn good • Design with Hollyhocks • frame the space • habitat • High Mountain Gardening • Hollyhocks • low water use • loyal partnership • miraculous • plant
My love for this old-fashioned, five petaled variety of Hollyhock, Alcea rosea, is not all consuming to distraction, but is a love one might hope for from a life-long friend. I sometimes wonder, in Michael Pollan’s words, if I chose to plant them or if they chose me? As if there was some type of [...]
October 19, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Perspective
Social Tagging: Benefits of keeping a garden • Human Motivation • Learn to love • Living • Self-Actualization
Filed under: Broad Spectrum, DISCOVER, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Perspective
Social Tagging: Benefits of keeping a garden • Human Motivation • Learn to love • Living • Self-Actualization
“Emily, come help me weed…” The wave of complete suffering that went through my body was whole and dramatic. The effort of holding myself up, moving my feet, visible. Did I really just hear my mom say it was time to weed? I liked the planting, especially potatoes. The eyes they grew, the bit of [...]
October 14, 2010 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Educate, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Grow, Inspired, Perspective, Tips
Social Tagging: Garden • garden design • gardening resource • Grow • grow a garden • ideas • importance of gardening • insatiable • inspiration • inspiring gardeners • learning • love • plants • play • process • publication • read • resource • take it to heart • tend a garden
Filed under: BEE, Broad Spectrum, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, Educate, Garden Love, Gardening Impetus, Gardens, Grow, Inspired, Perspective, Tips
Social Tagging: Garden • garden design • gardening resource • Grow • grow a garden • ideas • importance of gardening • insatiable • inspiration • inspiring gardeners • learning • love • plants • play • process • publication • read • resource • take it to heart • tend a garden
“Shit or get off the pot.” This is a phrase my mother commanded on a regular basis while I was growing up and continues to utter to this day. She has never needed to shout, these five words are enough. Especially for someone like me with a good, Catholic upbringing. (Guilt, duty, respect. They all [...]