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Farm Notes January 25, 2023

New roses, maitake mushroom plugs, comfort food, and gardening clean-up have been a part of the first few weeks of the 2023.

I love August! Flowers, festivals, farmer’s markets, food, and lots of fun. Rick and I had to step back a little break after Anne’s Celebration of Life to contemplate our path forward. Many would expect that we would have been prepared to let Anne go. After all, she was 97 years old. But no. NotContinue reading “Farm Notes (August 14, 2022)”

Prisoner in the Garden

My mother had a beautiful flower garden full of sweet peas, geraniums, lilies, hyacinths, poppies and anything else that existed in the neighborhood. She and my father, Harry Rae Boys, were married in 1915, a couple of years before the United States became involved in the Great War, WW1. While supply shortages took place onContinue reading “Prisoner in the Garden”

Why I care About Conservation

This was originally written for the Whidbey Camano Land Trust Newsletter, Fall 2008, Issue #4. I have wanted to go back to the “paradise” of my youth for the last couple of years and then the sad reality of my visit in 2008 comes into focus. Today I was reminded of this when hearing theContinue reading “Why I care About Conservation”

How it all began…

Roses have been my passion for the past 35 years. Most of the people who come to my blog at first will know me through our mutual love of roses and the community we’ve built while sharing this love. I’ve wanted a website for my books for quite a while, but never had the timeContinue reading “How it all began…”