A group of swamp white oaks Healthy soil is important, but for whom? In the Garden The young bur oak would not be kept down. Yet again it revealed itself among the standing dead stalks of a large patch of purple bee balm, a good three feet tall and leafing out. In spring, a bur oak’s leaves look like sharp-edged, glossy cutouts. They are not green, but shade delicately among soft corals, tans and pinks. The green comes a bit later, like a slow-motion wave gently pervading each leathery leaf. The question, as it had been for several years, was what to do with this young newcomer to the garden. About ten feet away and across the walk from house to garage stands a second bur oak that I’d started from an acorn some twelve years ago. I’ve enjoyed watching it grow its first sets of true leaves, become large enough to attract birds and then mature enough to bear acorns. This winter I limbed it up three feet from the ground, mainly to give the sedges and wild geraniums growing underneath a
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Thanks for asking. I am back to blogging regularly, though probably not on a regular schedule. I had a grant-funded job for awhile that kept me pretty busy, but now the grant is done, so it's back to part-time work; which means more time for gardening and blogging until something else comes along.
I knew exactly what room I was in when I saw that Rothko painting. I have a reproduction of a closely related Rothko in those same oranges and yellows hanging in my dining room. :-) -Jean
Thanks for stopping by.
In regards to birds, as a friend of mine said the other day, if you know bird songs, you can keep doing your garden work and still know who's around.
And Rothko: A happy coincidence--I started looking for an image of one of his red-based paintings, but the orange spoke to me this time. "Red," the play about him, is pretty good.