AFTER ALL THAT TENDER CLIPPING AND GENTLE GROOMING I gave you all those years, this is what I get in return? Oh, dear doodler Andre Jordan, I ask you, what went wrong?
‘NATURE’S BEST HOPE’ is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are nature’s best hope. Our actions count, and they add up to counteract a fragmented landscape and other challenges to the survival of so many critically important native creatures and the greater environment we all share.
Doug Tallamy’s 2007 book, “Bringing Nature Home,” has been for many of us a wake-up call into the entire subject of the unbreakable link between native plant species and native wildlife, and now with more than a decade of additional research insights, he goes further.
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Well I guess you trimmed one too many branches.
I love this!
When my wife and I finally get our new house which currently has a very small brick wall running around it, I think we might have a ‘leave us alone’ topiary hedge. Or maybe a ‘www.abeautifulrevolution.com’ topiary hedge – I’m sure my wife wouldn’t mind.
I agree, I hate uninvited visitors when I garden. Except for birds, bees, butterflies, etc. Only exception, I’ll break for compliments.
Hi, Andre! (Hi, Margaret – I’ve been reading/lurking for several months – finally decided to comment…)
My garden club meets this Sunday – at my house this month – and (this is kinda Twilight-zoney) one item on our agenda is watching the movie “A Man Named Pearl” – a wonderfully inspiring documentary about self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar. If you haven’t yet seen it, you must!
Margaret, I look forward to your blog every day and Thursdays here are especially fun because of your posts, Andre – thanks for the smiles you both bring to me!
Welcome, CovingtonKat. Yes, Pearl Fryar is AMAZING (as is Andre). Just amazing. Thanks for mentioning. I am so glad for all your good words, and your incessant lurking, Do continue all said behavior. :)
Ha ha Andre! I wish I could just let topiaries talk for me sometimes :)