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I moved to Philadelphia twenty years ago. It was a hot, dry summer day and I felt far away from the cool shade of my yard in...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Snow
I’ve been thinking about birds a lot as I shovel. We’ve had two big storms in a row and my job’s been to shovel the snow off the third...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
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I went to the flower show yesterday and felt a little depressed until I got to the bonsai exhibit. I had seen Jane Pepper in a slim blue...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Theft
I’ve been forced to rest the past week after surgery. While I’ve been going from my house to work and back again the world has exploded...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Monticello, Powis, Chanticleer
I’ve walked away from lots of famous gardens. One spring a couple of years ago, I visited my friend Felicity in Virginia. I took the...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Versailles
I just came in from snipping the bodies of tulips. The ones blooming are creamy yellow streaked with red flames. One of my neighbors...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Appleford
I gave a reading last week at an old house in the green suburbs of Philadelphia. We drove past hollows full of trees just barely leafed...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20204 min read
Bermuda
I went to Bermuda last June after not going there for more than twenty years. To me, the whole island is a garden, filled with secret...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Editing the Garden (with inspiration from Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd)
I've been reading Our Life in Gardens by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd. It's a wonderful book and it's taken me through a difficult week...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Nest
I admit it. I have red lily bug blood on my hands this morning. Or at least I did a few minutes ago. I actually have Asiatic lilies...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Cedar Waxwings, Aldo Leopold, and the Biotic Community
A man who grows strawberries near here for a little extra cash shot seven cedar waxwings and a chipping sparrow. They were eating his...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Song
In a recent issue of The New Yorker, Jonathan Franzen describes the way songbirds are hunted in Europe. They’re caught on lime sticks...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Tomato
I bought five tomatoes on a vine a couple of days ago at Super Fresh on the banks of the Delaware River. They were bright red and firm....
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20202 min read
Masquerade
I just planted the last of my tulips, frilly Green Wave, Blue Spectacle, Foxtrot--a peony tulip with white and pink petals--Analita. I’m...
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Sharon White
Jan 12, 20203 min read
Winter Garden
Once a trailer park. At the entrance to Heathcote Botanical Gardens, a screw pine was thick with gold bees on the fluffy inflorescence....
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Sharon White
Jan 11, 20203 min read
Fir Trees
I’ve been skiing in a garden planted by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression over 80 years ago. Through clusters...
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Sharon White
Jan 11, 20203 min read
Quiet
When I was just a bit older than my son is now, I lived in a cabin in Maine for a month. Or I was supposed to live in a cabin in Maine....
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Sharon White
Jan 11, 20202 min read
Sliding
I walked on slippery sidewalks through tunnels of snow yesterday with the movie Into the Wild perched in my purse. No buses were running...
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Sharon White
Jan 11, 20202 min read
Bloodroot
A couple of weeks ago I went walking along the Wissahickon Creek with Scott. I’d been feeling cooped up and it was a pretty warm day. I...
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Sharon White
Jan 7, 20202 min read
St. Valentine's Day
I’ve been skiing on Thomas Penn’s garden. It’s a ballpark now, but once it was filled with sparkling ponds full of goldfish
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