Plant-shopping in Portugal (or almost)

It is under crushing heat, a blinding sun and the highest of blue skies (for the Pacific Northwest, that is) that I criss-crossed fields of this nursery for the first time. A heavenly breeze carried a heady but sublime scent of over-ripened fruits from the raspberry field found over the holly hedge. In the heat of the day, no birds dared singing, an antique tractor slowly drudged by, powerful impact sprinklers strived to keep crops cool and moist. I

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Posted at 2pm on 08/24/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Design, Nurseries, Plants

Summer Vacations with Lapham’s Book of Nature

The latest issue of Lapham’s Quarterly (volume 1, number 3) entitled Book of Nature, was awarded front pocket of my carry-on travelers’ bag. My short summer escape to the family farm, half a continent away, where Internet is out of reach and time is as plentiful as it is unhurried, is happening in good company.

The Lapham’s Quarterly is a new publication master-crafted by Lewis Lapham, this man of exception

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Posted at 7pm on 08/13/08 | no comments | Filed Under: Books

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PlanetPlant - Musings from the Global Garden is a collective undertaking between bi-costal horticultural friends, Canadian Dave Demers and American Gary Keim. Frustrated with the temporal content and distribution limitations of glossy magazines and dearth of opinion, the two friends longed for a better medium for credible voices, virgin or seasoned, to be heard the world over. Hence was born PlanetPlant.

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