Seed-a-holic Times

Berkheya purpurea BerkThis past weekend we finally took time to look around and open our eyes. We were not disappointed in the NW Hills Studio Tour on Saturday. And yesterday we visited an o...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2017/06/paleo-friendly-garden-visit-lunch.html

A few Christmas holidays from years gone by, Michele treated all her fellow office workers with some of her family's  holiday drink. Delicious! Michele had  been in the habit of baking for th...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2016/01/krupnikas-with-apologies-to-micheles.html

A couple of years ago I attended a tufa crevice workshop at Robin's led by Harvey Wrightman. Fortunately for us he brought lots of tufa rock. "Tufa", you say, "What's that?" Okay, think of what ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2015/04/making-magic.html

If someone had told me at age 12 that I would want to spend a snow day as an old lady washing pots, I would have fallen over laughing. But that is exactly what I wanted to do today. And I did! ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2015/01/snow-day.html

Next up on the "Scottish Trip" was my primary destination- the garden I had visited so many times in cyberspace in Ian Young's Bulb Log Both Ian and his talented wife Maggi have been at the he...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2013/09/gardens-in-june-aberdeen-calling.html

As spring slipped into summer 2013, I was lucky enough to be in Scotland. Perhaps, we should rename it the "Land of Meconopsis"? Ian Christie's fabulous nursery is there, all but hidden in a lit...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2013/08/mr-meconopsis.html

Early May in Concord MA  With apologies to Dryden and his translation of the opening of  Lucretius' DE RERUM NATURA: Delight of humankind, and gods above, Parent of Rome; propitious Queen ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2013/05/may-state-of-mind.html

Well, you know how it is - when seedlists appear I go right into seek mode, flagging corners on each page of printed copies, making a mental note of where I would grow that species in the garden,...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2013/01/still-silently-seeking-seeds.html

NARGS ANNUAL/WESTERN STUDY MEETING MARCH 9-11 2012 On the road to the Bellevue Botanic Alpine Rock Garden We arrived early for the NARGS Study Weekend entitled "Stop the Car", full of hope...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2012/03/march-wins-cruelest-month-2012.html

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU! Outdoor Nativity in Sharon CT From Korea, Nam Hee writes that the Black Dragon sign comes only once in 60 years, this time on the 23rd of January via the lunar cale...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2012/01/year-of-black-water-dragon.html

July - the road to Horseshoe    Has it ever happened to you, one of those days, when even getting lost with a GPS, or turned back by impassible snow-filled roads, has not thwarted your cha...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/10/colorado-day-11-horseshoe-mountain-page.html

Boreas kept the air flow moving. And the air tasted clean on my palette. As if for proof, my eyes glanced down at my feet. Beautiful white lichen, known only grow in pollution free zones, aboun...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/10/colorado-day-10-boreas-page-3.html

Sedum integrifolium We continued on our way treading lightly over fell fields and pockets of snow. After all the delicate ranunculaceae family, the  next to show itself was one of my favori...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/09/colorado-day-10-boreas-page-2.html

Boreas Pass As a child, I spent countless hours following the deeds of the ancients. It did not matter to me that these were but collective memories, recorded so long ago as to be handed dow...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/09/colorado-day-10-boreas-page-1.html

Note: This series of blogs are now written well after the Colorado trip. It is amazing to find oneself in areas that do not have reliable internet access or where there are better things to do. ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/08/colorado-day-9-breckenridge.html

Ipomopsis aggregata Ipomopsis aggregata Note - click on the photos to enlarge After our pleasant family visit with son Tim and his fiancee Kate, we were off to the high mountains and ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/08/colorado-day-8-betty-ford-rock-garden.html

Steamboat Springs is a pretty sleepy little burg during a summer week in July. Sure they have mountain bike events that raise the populace after work. But weekdays no great mobs of people pour o...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/08/colorado-day-7.html

STEAMBOAT - THE MOUNTAIN As Katie said - whenever you get 80 degrees on the mountain (26C), you get a thunderstorm. Usually this does not happen until afternoon. So we got an early start this da...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-6.html

Fish Creek Falls is one of the natural beauties that grace Steamboat Springs. From the parking lot there are a couple of trails - one to the overlook, the other down to the falls and up over the ...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-5.html

Setting out from Fort Collins, we headed north to Wyoming. But first we had to go through the mountains and their passes. One interesting marker along the way concerned Virginia Dale. Highw...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-4.html

A visit to Colorado would not be complete without seeing my old friend Kirk Fiesler. Way back when, he was a speaker for our BNARGS chapter at Stockbridge MA.  While visiting he spent a golden a...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-3.html

Automated sprinklers cooled the incoming air and washed the smells from the early morning garden. As we awoke though, we knew instantly the day would be a scorcher. Even so we lingered in the hou...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-2-part-1.html

The first thing done upon leaving the terminal in Denver is to change to sun glasses. The light is just that much more bright (the UV rays that much more intense) than Connecticut even on its sun...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/07/colorado-day-1.html

Spring crashed the party this year. Heavy lightning storms, tornadoes, cold rainy days with intermittent heat waves gave the performance lots of waves with quick crests of bloom. But it was wonde...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/06/spring-retrospective.html

There was a week at the beginning of May where the sun shone. I remember it, yes, a day so bright my eyes needed a shield.  Now it is rain, mist, and fog- on and on...for weeks. The little garde...

http://www.seed-aholic.com/2011/05/may-red.html