Mel, spending time in Mexico, connects for us the winter habitat (in Mexico) of the Monarch Butterly with the milkweeds they visit in our neck of the woods.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – May 2009
By Phyllis Galowitz
Spring is here at last but this year my garden will have to be self-sufficient. I will be having surgery on my spine, where the nerves have been causing pain in my right leg and keeping me from being able to do what I love to do.
GARDEN PHYLLISOPHY – April 2009
By Phyllis Galowitz
There’s an enormous cottontail rabbit chewing on something that only he can see growing in the garden. He and his wife have been living, all through the winter, well hidden under a huge, spreading juniper.
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.