Five Garden Highlights of 2012

Various mosses with
European Ginger and
Epimedium

5. Discovering the beauty of moss for troughs and other containers.

4. Missing only one on my shrub I.D. class mid-term: Forsythia!

3. Working for five months in formal gardens designed by Frederick Law Olmstead, famed landscape architect of Central Park and the Biltmore Estate (to name a few) where I discovered the joy and beauty of sedums and sempervivums.

Sempervivum arachnoideum

Sedum hispanicum

2. Successful propagation of a fig tree, miniature azalea, and galium (to name a few).

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1. Discovering Zen Gardening and making Zen Trough Gardens.


All good wishes for the upcoming new year. And keep growing!

What To Do with Broken Troughs: An Option

Don't throw away those broken corners of a broken trough! Give it to a goofy relation and see what he or she makes of it. In this case, I broke a wide and shallow Zen trough while removing it from its mold. My son, whose name is Ben, helped. He then rescued the broken pieces and crowned himself Zen Ben.