My favourite gardener, the Darwinian Gardener, gives another interview in the Florida News-Journal with which I can only whole-heartedly agree. One can work in a garden as a Darwinian gardener if one (i) needs to reclaim a driveway or path to the front door for one's own purposes, (ii) has a light carbon footprint by using manual rather than internal combustion power, and (iii) has chilled beer on hand. I suspect the Darwinian Gardener is a many of refinement, and drinks Cooper's Pale Ale. I suspect he'd be very pleased to know that I have a considerable amount of data supporting his theory that brick and concrete triggers the hormones of grass plants.
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Earlier this year I reviewed Douglas Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home, which inspired me to convert my garden to all or mostly native plants.
August is the time when gardens look their best.
Just a quick reminder that tomorrow Aaron Newton and I will begin our next Farm and Garden Design Class.
First of all, in my first post I accidently wrote the class was starting tomorrow, April 4. In fact, we're starting the following Thursday, April 11 and running to the first Thursday in May (apparently I can't read a calendar correctly).