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    The Weekly Gardener Volume 4: January - July 2013
    The Weekly Gardener Volume 4: January - July 2013
    The Weekly Gardener Volume 4: January - July 2013
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    The Weekly Gardener Volume 4: January - July 2013

    By Francis Rosenfeld

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    Collected articles from theweeklygardener.com - January through July 2013. For current articles visit The Weekly Gardener blog

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFrancis Rosenfeld
    Release dateAug 22, 2013
    ISBN9781301256365
    The Weekly Gardener Volume 4: January - July 2013
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    Francis Rosenfeld

    Francis Rosenfeld has published thirteen books : Terra Two, Generations, Letters to Lelia, The Plant - A Steampunk Story, Door Number Eight, Fair, A Year and A Day, Möbius' Code, Between Mirrors, The Blue Rose Manuscript, Don't Look Down, The Library and My Dear Fiona. To learn more about her work, please visit her blog, francisrosenfeld.com.

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      The Weekly Gardener Volume 4 - Francis Rosenfeld

      The Weekly Gardener

      Volume 4

      January through June 2013

      A collection of weekly articles from

      The Weekly Gardener

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

      Thank you for downloading this free eBook. You are welcome to share it with your friends. This book may be reproduced, copied and distributed for non-commercial purposes, provided the book remains in its complete original form. If you enjoyed this book, please return to http://smashwords.com to discover other works by this author. Thank you for your support.

      The Weekly Gardener is a live blog, for current articles please visit the website.

      I would like to thank my blog readers whose continued interest gave me the confidence to keep writing. The Weekly Gardener started in June 2011, with Week 23.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Week 1 - January 7, 2013 - The beautiful wild

      Week 2 - January 14, 2013 - Hemingway's cats

      Week 3 - January 21, 2013 - Really, really cold

      Week 4 - January 28, 2013 - Right on schedule

      Week 5 - February 3, 2013 - Armchair gardening

      Week 6 - February 10, 2013 - Snowed in

      Week 7 - February 17, 2013 - Planting time!

      Week 8 - February 24, 2013 - Creating a garden color scheme

      Week 9 - March 4, 2013 - Really?

      Week 10 - March 11, 2013 - Violets

      Week 11 - March 18, 2013 - The origin of spices

      Week 12 - March 25, 2013 - Sea gardens

      Week 13 - April 1, 2013 - Meh!

      Week 14 - April 8, 2013 - Is it spring yet?

      Week 15 - April 15, 2013 - Still cold

      Week 16 - April 22, 2013 - Mostly white

      Week 17 - April 29, 2013 - Dappled shade

      Week 18 - May 6, 2013 - Boundaries

      Week 19 - May 13, 2013 - Roses

      Week 20 - May 20, 2013 - Garden stories

      Week 21 - May 27, 2013 - And more roses

      Week 22 - June 3, 2013 - White and yellow flowers

      Week 23 - June 10, 2013 - Between magenta and violet

      Week 24 - June 17, 2013 - Summer heralds

      Week 25 - June 24, 2013 - Very promising

      Week 26 - July 1, 2013 - Old Romanian sites

      Week 1 - January 7, 2013

      THE BEAUTIFUL WILD

      Under the sun

      We walked briskly on the wide path winding around bayous and mangrove thickets, through mazes filled with a wildlife that minded its daily activities as if we weren't there: alligators and herons, pink flamingoes, water snakes, frogs and tiny lizards. We were allowed to glimpse into a world normally inaccessible to humans, a swampy cluttered universe fit for smaller creatures with scales or wings.

      Swift lizards slunk across white rocks enjoying the warmth of a little sheltered haven that must feel like an entire universe for beings so small. The late morning sun heated up the limestone making the setting quite cozy for this little fellow. It was so quiet, even with the abundance of wild life around us, not a screech, not a swoosh in the water, not a shuffle of leaves.

      We walked quietly too as if through a painting and stopped after one mile, unfit humans that we were, due to the unavailability of water and inadequate foot wear. After a few complaints of are we there yet? and how long is this going to take? we gave up and headed back.

      Handwritten messages scribbled in the sand accompanied us on the path and pointed to interesting sights, an alligator or a snake, courtesy of travelers ahead of us who wanted to share their visual treasures.

      A sign at the beginning of the path advised take only pictures, leave only footprints and that is exactly what we did.

      Without words

      The sun set quickly as it does in the South, trailed by a sophisticated tapestry of colors. Shadows of birds fluttered over the ever moving water dotting the shimmery surface with somber violet hues. The wild beach undergoes continuous transformation at sunset, when the high tide creates new currents and refreshes salt water ponds, shapes sand dunes and laps against the sculptural driftwood decorating the shores.

      People and dogs wander slowly, checking on sandcastles or colorful shells, with their footsteps muffled by the soft powdery sand. It is warm at sunset, and quiet, a peace without words heralding good tidings for the young year.

      I step barefoot through the fast moving water that the tide rushed into the salt ponds, watching tall legged birds prepare for the night and moving with us rather than away, I'm guessing because they accepted people as a weird but tolerable component of their environment.

      The ocean shifts around the mementoes of that day's activities, a well fortified sand castle, a sculpture or a moat, playing with the long shadows the setting sun left in its wake.

      The colors of the sky and water change, turning the landscape into an extraordinary but not of this earth surrounding where everything is tinted rose, orange and violet. We stepped out of ourselves for a bit, watching the water rhythmically sweep across the wet sand with a slow deep sound like the beating of a heart.

      Beach social

      They don't normally allow people to get close, but it was a splendid late afternoon with warm air that enveloped everything like a blanket and the social birds mellowed out to the peacefulness of their surroundings.

      Week 2 - January 14, 2013

      HEMINGWAY'S CATS

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