“The island, your island, cowered dark,”
The island, your island, cowered dark, holding away from you…you felt that your island was a universe, infinite and old as the darkness; not an island at all, but an infinite dark world where all the...
View ArticleTasmanian Flora Snapshot: Richea pandanifolia
For someone accustomed to seeing conifers and deciduous trees in US and Europe, the Tasmanian flora has an otherworldly that defies description. Its uniqueness is the legacy of its Gondwanan ancestry...
View ArticleOlive Harvest and Oil in Tasmania
Despite being an experienced gardener, I am always fascinated by how one plant can spawn countless domesticated forms. For instance, wine itself is the byproduct of Vitis vinifera, which masquerades...
View ArticleInspiring Tasmanian Plant Vignettes
Sometimes the best antidote to the artifice of gardens is an excursion to a natural area where the human influence is minimal or nonexistent. Wild plant communities can humbly demonstrate how plants...
View Articleîle de jonquilles
Dear Jimmy, Your post on daffodils reminded me how late spring has been this year in eastern U.S. Winter has been behaving like a dinner guest whose welcome has gone beyond stale, hence our...
View ArticleGray Monarchs of Australia
It seems sad that the wanton destruction of giant trees was worldwide in the past – if one counts the coastal redwoods of California, cedar forests of Lebanon, kauri groves of New Zealand, and alerce...
View ArticleCoastal Reminiscences
Dear Jimmy, As much as I enjoy gardening and seeing gardens, I sometimes welcome a respite. We’re constantly urged to make the last sowings of autumn vegetables and annuals at this time of the year,...
View ArticleSummery Sunshine from a Fruit Tree: Apricots
Having eaten my fill from PYO farms and farmers’ market, I am a self-confessed peach and nectarine evangelist. One summer, I thought nothing ludicrous about driving 35 to 40 minutes to a local farm...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Garden: Private Garden, Australia
Buoyant from seeing my friend’s garden a few times, the client exclaimed: “I want a garden like Sally’s!” My friend Sally Johanssohn’s garden, the product of 20 or so more years’ hard work, has been...
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