As we face the demise of two of Edith Wharton’s prized trees at The Mount, our Self-Taught Gardener provides solace.
Tag: maple trees
NATURE’S TURN: Melodious phrases, vegetable plantings with spires of camass flowers
From the rousing, quirky sounds and silhouetted flight of woodcocks in the late winter dusk to the melodious phrases and amusing spectacle of speed-walking robins on sunny, just-raked garden beds, the activities of seasonal arrivals have tuned our response to the swelling spring.
NATURE’S TURN: Praise Berkshire winter – and south Florida oases for wildlife, human spirit
A few miles inland, birds, plants and people find refuge from traffic, shopping malls, endless concrete and cookie-cutter rows of houses at two other oases.
NATURE’S TURN: A fresh look at neighboring beaver ponds
A new, magnificent beaver dam was visible from the road, as well as a lodge of mounded sticks. Kingfisher and heron flew over our garden on their way to and from the ponds.
NATURE’S TURN: Spring in the winter air. Trees, gardeners wake from dormancy
The seasons of more active engagement with the land are about to begin.