tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191776294612983889.post5529043919438733592..comments2023-05-02T07:36:57.795-07:00Comments on The Garden On The Ridge: Not a Book ReviewLishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16816600563832631710noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191776294612983889.post-72637337948227740822016-01-16T12:27:16.803-08:002016-01-16T12:27:16.803-08:00Hello Lis and thank you for dropping by my blog !
...Hello Lis and thank you for dropping by my blog !<br />I have to apologize that I am responding to your post here rather quickly .. skimming the details but I think very much getting your point.<br />I was lucky enough to spend a little of my childhood on the east coast by the sea and forests .. and with the energy of a child explored as much as I could giving me a huge advantage over people that don't get the true nature of NATURE .. it is wild, and it makes you work to fully appreciate it's amazing value.<br />Like Jenny, I am sick of magazines that display "outdoor ROOMS" ? I would so love a magazine that displays what a down to earth, every day gardener works with .. no celebrities or famous fake gardeners .. just an ordinary real gardener.<br />There is a mounting disadvantage that is happening with so much planting of grasses and stock plants .. don't get me wrong, I love grasses and have loads of them. But ... the fewer the flowering perennials/annuals with mass plantings in urban areas .. the fewer plants bees and other pollinators have to go to .. I am going to be reviewing a small paperback book by Rhonda Fleming Hayes called "Pollinator Friendly Gardening" that touches on this subject. I know gardeners are probably fed up with being told to plant for pollinators all the time but this is a different angle I hadn't thought of before and it is interesting.<br />I too love my little piece of Eden tremendously .. I have tried and cried over many a conundrum my "garden" has presented to me and yet I keep coming back for more .. that is what a true gardener is .. a stubborn sucker for punishment ? haha .. Seriously though .. nature and gardening have such embedded ties .. people who expect nature to bow to their requirements are just too funny !<br />Joy CanadianGardenJoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18130452541076704075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191776294612983889.post-55077935810288147542016-01-15T16:48:42.157-08:002016-01-15T16:48:42.157-08:00So glad to hear someone else thinks as I do! Thank...So glad to hear someone else thinks as I do! Thank you. I love my little spot too and take great comfort in the wild areas I still find all around me. In Eastern Ontario there is still plenty of wildness, you just have to look for it.Lishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16816600563832631710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7191776294612983889.post-4780958235342551472016-01-12T12:05:43.490-08:002016-01-12T12:05:43.490-08:00I totally agree with you. So much talk of the envi...I totally agree with you. So much talk of the environment, hugely expensive global meetings with everyone jetting around to Paris, and how many of these people ever spend time in a natural environment?<br />As for "post-wild" - well, my native weeds and trees and insects are just as wild and challenging as they ever were:)I used to get Canadian Gardening and they had some really good articles about plants. Now it is all about outdoor rooms -furniture with the odd plant here and there. I feel like a dinosaur, a relic from another time. Still my gardens, made with my own sweat and grunt, and not a lot of money, bring me much pleasure. And I love our little piece of wild land.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01816796977553847916noreply@blogger.com