GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – January 2009
By Phyllis Galowitz
The timing couldn’t have been better. Two days before Thanksgiving, I tripped over the curb in front of Price Chopper as I was planning to do some last minute food shopping …
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – December 2008
By Phyllis Galowitz
The sun is bright but I’m not anxious to do any gardening on this cold day. I’m happy to sit at the kitchen table and enjoy the almost winter garden, the birds feeding, the chipmunks and juncos cleaning up the fallen sunflower seeds and the bright, contrasting shadows on the leaf-carpeted floor of the woods behind my house, while Mahler’s Symphony #1 fills my ears.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – November 2008
By Phyllis Galowitz
The hard frost came early this year and with it the dahlias and cannas turned black, signifying the end of the flowers and vegetables of late summer and fall in my garden. It’s sad, but I’m ready for the change of season.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – October 2008
By Phyllis Galowitz
Fall. The meadow that I see from my office window, a mass of goldenrod and delicate lavender asters, is a spectacular sight. The trees in the background are just beginning to change color.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – September 2008
By Phyllis Galowitz
I’m still enjoying the late summer garden in mid-August; the phlox, in brilliant red-violet and snowy white, the black-eyed Susans, bright yellow, the coneflowers, and oh—the lavender!