Daniel Mount Gardens

This blog has been neglected so long it's starting to rot...go to my new blog at mountgardens.com

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2013/11/rotten-blog.html

This blog is dying a slow death, but you can find my new blod coming to life at mountgardens.com .

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2013/01/dead-of-winter.html

Read more about irises on my new blog .

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/06/irises.html

This blog has been transplanted

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/05/this-blog-has-been-transplanted.html

Tip-toe through the tulips with me to my new blog at mountgardens.com

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/04/tulip-time-everywhere.html

If you haven't caught on yet, this blog has moved to Daniel Mount GARDENS . You can read more about tulips like this 'Happy Generation' there.

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-trails.html

Those of you who have known me for a while will not be surprised that I am moving. I’ve been moving since I left the womb, whether running across my mother’s kitchen floor, or packing up a...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/02/movement.html

Well, I got my wish. Snow, snow, snow and more snow with freezing rain and then some more snow. I know why people complain about snow. But being trapped in the house for a few days having to e...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/01/frozen-foods.html

When does the New Year end? and the regular year begin? In our rush to get back to work, on with our resolutions and to stash the Christmas decorations away most of us start the year on Janua...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/01/end-of-beginning.html

I sit here to write, sluggish and bloated with holiday cheer, a laughing Buddha on the precipice of the New Year. The landscape I survey is hazy, what will I make of it and what will it take o...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2012/01/diggin-in.html

Already 3 weeks ago, when I first heard Bing Crosby’s dreamy crooning, I too began to dream. And even wish out loud for snow. Not mountain-top, ski-slope snow, but snow right down here in the l...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/12/color-of-christmas.html

Rhododendron 'Ostbo's Red Elizabeth' blooming again the day before Christmas. Eat your hear out all those of you who are blanketed in white.

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/12/who-needs-poinsettias.html

I love prune brown, though I would never eat these old pear leaves, frozen, rained on, in decay. But the color to me is as rich as chocolate, savory as braised lamb, hefty as pumpernickel. Who...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/12/fall-color-x.html

How precious the light. I don’t care how high the price of gold goes. This time of year when the clouds break, you have to stop and catch it. Not just with the camera, or the skin, but with ...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/12/fall-color-ix.html

As I searched through my my fiery vocabulary for a metaphor to describe the generous beauty of this sourwood (Oxydendron arboreum), I ran up against trite words like “volcanic”, “molten�...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/12/fall-color-viii.html

As the cold melancholic rains strip the color from the trees, flinging the golden leaves of the cotton woods into the gutter, the flaming reds of maples across the lawn, I wonder how I will su...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/11/fall-color-vii.html

If you’re prone to metallic hyperbole you’d probably call the color of these fallen cherry leaves bronze. If you’re like Crayola you’d probably call it burnt sienna. If Caran d’ache ...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/11/fall-color-vi.html

This lovely lavender dame’s rocket (Hesperis matronalis) has been blooming since April. In July as it began to lay down slowly on the surrounding perennials I thought I should cut it back, ...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/11/fall-color-v.html

A few night s ago I had dinner at a Japanese restaurant that I hadn’t dined at in years. It actually had changed hands and names several times since I was last there back in the early 90s. I...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-color-iv.html

This weekend we had a sunny day. Michael and I were rushing around the garden gathering the last of the gatherables before the next swath of rain passed through. A few pears, a few pumpkins. A...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/11/fall-color-iii.html

Last weekend Michael and I drove to Boise, Idaho for his parents Golden Wedding Anniversary. It’s a beautiful drive, that we take frequently through the Cascades, the sage lands of the Yakim...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-color-ii.html

Fall is creeping up on us slowly. Certainly the temperatures have changed, the clouds are back, the rains have begun on schedule. It’s the colors that are being shy. The grand autumnal color...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/10/fall-color.html

Last weekend Michael and I headed to Mount Rainier for a 3 day weekend. We were celebrating Michael’s birthday and escaping a myriad of projects around the house. Though the weather forecast...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/10/site-unseen.html

It seems an odd time of year to be selling tulips. There are sunflowers, asters and mums ripe for the picking. I wonder where these six-petalled beauties are coming from. Somewhere below the e...

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/09/tuliptime.html

I’ve read that all gardening is a sickness, a homesickness. A deep seated longing for our mythical home in Eden. Or an echoing refrain of our evolutionary beginnings on the African savannas....

http://danielmountgardens.blogspot.com/2011/09/homesickness.html