Comments on: slideshow: 8 favorite garden ephemerals http://awaytogarden.com/slideshow-8-favorite-garden-ephemerals Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/slideshow-8-favorite-garden-ephemerals/comment-page-1#comment-337231 Margaret Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:14:41 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=4037#comment-337231 You are very, very kind, Cathy. How nice of you to write in and tell me so. Yes, the liminal phases of our lives can be so tricky. And I handed in the "next book" last Tuesday, so yes, another book in January 2013, heaven help me. Blessings meantime; see you here I hope. You are very, very kind, Cathy. How nice of you to write in and tell me so. Yes, the liminal phases of our lives can be so tricky. And I handed in the “next book” last Tuesday, so yes, another book in January 2013, heaven help me. Blessings meantime; see you here I hope.

]]> By: Cathy Ruppert http://awaytogarden.com/slideshow-8-favorite-garden-ephemerals/comment-page-1#comment-337185 Cathy Ruppert Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:15:07 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=4037#comment-337185 Just finished and I shall have some peace there...and have sent glowing recommendations to my gardening friends. Loved the book and the philosophy...I am about 10 years older than you, so have come to some of your wonderful revelations already, but especially related to the "neither here nor there-ness" of change...your's is the kind of book that I have multiple paper markers in to re-read particular sentences. Will there be another book? Hope so. Thanks! Caty Just finished and I shall have some peace there…and have sent glowing recommendations to my gardening friends. Loved the book and the philosophy…I am about 10 years older than you, so have come to some of your wonderful revelations already, but especially related to the “neither here nor there-ness” of change…your’s is the kind of book that I have multiple paper markers in to re-read particular sentences. Will there be another book? Hope so.

Thanks!

Caty

]]> By: ayo http://awaytogarden.com/slideshow-8-favorite-garden-ephemerals/comment-page-1#comment-10360 ayo Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:18:55 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=4037#comment-10360 I was not referring to trailing arbutus--which I am told is a State Flower of Massachusetts. The "mayflower" to me is Maianthemum canadense also referred to by the very unromantic name of "cow parsnip"---maybe it's edible? Apparently, there are other things people call mayflowers, too. They are everywhere on my wooded Berkshire land--and don't mind deep shade. They form a lovely carpet of foliage with white spring flowers---like a minimalist version of lilly of the valley ---without the overpowering perfume. I'm hoping if I plant hosta, ferns, and others things that will emerge later, it won't crowd them out. This year, with the cool wet weather, they are still green in July. It almost makes up for the sorry state of some of my pots! I was not referring to trailing arbutus–which I am told is a State Flower of Massachusetts. The “mayflower” to me is Maianthemum canadense also referred to by the very unromantic name of “cow parsnip”—maybe it’s edible?
Apparently, there are other things people call mayflowers, too. They are everywhere on my wooded Berkshire land–and don’t mind deep shade. They form a lovely carpet of foliage with white spring flowers—like a minimalist version of lilly of the valley —without the overpowering perfume.
I’m hoping if I plant hosta, ferns, and others things that will emerge later, it won’t crowd them out. This year, with the cool wet weather, they are still green in July. It almost makes up for the sorry state of some of my pots!

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