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A garden is not forever...

Because every garden reflects those who have loved it and when they are gone, likely so is the garden

Aug 11, 2023 •

Can you integrate overgrown plants into a new garden design?

Jul 23, 2023 •

Attention Houseplant Black Thumbs!

I'm here for you.

Feb 22, 2023 •

Yes, there is beauty and new life in destruction and decay

Feb 21, 2023 •

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Knossos - Minoan history or mythic theatre?

Part I: Was today's Knossos fashioned from flights of fancy or rigorous archaeology?

Jan 21, 2023 •

Time and making the most of it

I'm not talking a new watch or organizing your cutlery drawer

Jan 5, 2023 •

Water - a gateway to magic

It wasn't always that way.

Dec 29, 2022 •

Do stories and films shape little girls' dreams?

How female protagonists and points of view are so formative to us as we grow...

Dec 4, 2022 •

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Plants, gardens, nature, dogs, living lightly and whatever is on my mind...

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