Friday September 25th, 2009

The Sunny Side Of The Garden

(The following is the speech I gave to The Garden Writers Association last night at their annual convention in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Despite the familiar first sentence and a few other tropes, it’s a new piece.  Enjoy!)   2009 has been one extraordinary year in the history of American gardening. As if on cue, a […]

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Thursday February 19th, 2009

Gardenomics

I find it surprising when it’s said that people lost their money with Bernard Madoff.  Bernie Madoff didn’t lose their money—to do that he would have had to invest it—he found their money.  There’s a big difference. It gets me thinking about Belgian dentists.  Belgian dentists?  Investment bankers have long used Belgian dentists as the […]

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