Category Archives: Sustainable gardening

The Red Hat – A Thanksgiving Metaphor

Posted on November 21, 2012 by BGBowen

To you, it’s a red, hand knitted hat.  To me, it’s a personal metaphor for a world of Thanksgiving gratitude, reaching backwards and forwards over fifty years. I knit this hat for my amazing friend Karen over the last week.  … Continue reading →

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Waiting No More: Cyclamen

Posted on November 17, 2012 by BGBowen

Laurence Ferlinghetti, the iconic Beat poet and San Francisco bookstore owner, wrote an amazing poem in 1958, called “I Am Waiting.”  Here is the last stanza: and I am waiting to write the great indelible poem and I am waiting … Continue reading →

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Harvest Musings

Posted on October 21, 2012 by BGBowen

This week, I’ve pulled the annuals, freed the tomatoes from their lattice cages, and ushered my eight treasured fuchsias, two scented geraniums and two succulents inside.        No matter my alternately stormy and sad I’m feeling, the garden reaches out to … Continue reading →

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