GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – April 2011
By Phyllis Galowitz
Some of my friends who live in the center of town already have signs of spring poking their noses through the wet soil. Living in Palmer Hollow, I have not yet seen them, but red squirrels are frolicking in my garden, chasing each other up and down the trees and enjoying the seed that falls from the bird feeder.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – March 2011
By Phyllis Galowitz
It’s that time of the year. Catalogues are in the mailbox every day and although I keep saying I’m not going to plant anything, that I’m cutting back on gardening, how can I resist, when these marketing specialists assure me of “60 lbs. of tomatoes from a single plant, foot long cucumbers that hang straight as an arrow and are vigorous as well as burpless!”
GARDEN PHYLLISOPY – February 2011
By Phyllis Galowitz
Each morning for the last few weeks, a new layer of snow covers the grass, sometimes only an inch or two, sometimes a foot or two. It outlines the branches of the trees, lies across the evergreens and creates the winter garden. The scene changes hourly.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – January 2011
By Phyllis Galowitz It’s 14 degrees at the warmest part of this middle of December day. The birds don’t seem to mind the cold. They’re happily flitting from one port to the other on the bird feeder, while the blue jay fills himself from the suet cake perched on top of a flower pot. Black-capped [...]
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – November 2010
By Phyllis Galowitz
It’s a late afternoon in the middle of October when I’m taking my usual walk along Route 28. The sugar maples in front of my house are completely bare, but the birches, late in getting their leaves in the spring, have held on to them long after the other trees are mere skeletons.