WHY DO BIRDS SUDDENLY APPEAR? Just in case you want the musical answer to be indelibly imprinted in your brain today (thanks, Andre Jordan, for the power of suggestion), how about a spin through the 40-year-old recording of Karen Carpenter’s decidedly non-horticultural answer to this question?
This doodle is one ins aeries of Andre’s “Songs for Ex-Lovers” (his own, shall we say, arrangement of some all-time favorite lyrics, that is). I hope we can see the rest sometime.
Love is in the air!
THE LECTURE that he’s been giving for a number of years is not-so-subtly called “Kill Your Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Jaffe Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn’t for everyone. But Dan just wants to grab our attention and get us to start to make some changes at least in the way we care for the turfgrass we do want in our landscapes. And maybe give up a little square footage of it to some other kind of more diverse planting, too, like the wild strawberries (Fragaria virginiana, inset). Alternative, more eco-focused styles of lawn care, along with some lawn alternatives is what he and I talked about on the podcast. Dan is Director of Applied Ecology at Norcross Wildlife Foundation in Wales, Massachusetts, and its 8,000-acre sanctuary. He’s also co-author with Mark Richardson of the book “Native Plants for New England Gardens.”
(Stream it below, read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)
I always wanted that hairdo.
I know you are not supposed to laugh at your own jokes but this doodle did make me laugh
That’s chuckle-licious!
cannot find your music list anymore, is it still on the site. thanks
Hi, Karen. The soundtrack “player” isn’t on my book website any longer, if that’s what you were recalling, but here’s the list. The player didn’t really work any longer as gradually many of the songs got removed from the site they were streamed from by copyright holders (as is the case with most music streaming sites — things come and go in availability and so you can’t count on the tunes being accessible over a period of time). Is that what you recalled?