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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
We'll Be Going to Bishopville, S.C.
We just watched the most inspiring, the most uplifting, the most beautiful documentary film about an unassuming self-educated man in the above-named town who over several decades has created the most amazing topiary garden on three acres of red clay, using mainly discarded plants thrown away by a local nursery, a man with the unlikely and wholly unforgettable name of Pearl Fryar, a man who's been celebrated now as an original sculptural artist with a generous and compelling vision and a movie to call his own: "A Man Named Pearl."Five minutes in and we both looked at each other: "This is a place we've got to go!" So ... a pilgrimage to South Carolina will happen, probably next month. You take I-77 south to Columbia and turn left, the only direction I like to turn in South Carolina.
See what another avid gardener had to say about the place, with many photographs.
Labels: gardening, Pearl Fryar
Friday, March 20, 2009
Michelle's Green Thumb
It's the First Day of Spring, so what could be more appropriate for the season than hearing Michelle Obama announce that she's digging up the White House lawn for a vegetable garden!We likes us some veggie symbolism!
It'll help keep the president grounded. Get it? Grounded.
And no greater training for government than seeding, weeding, thinning, transplanting, pruning, harvesting, composting. What could be apter for focusing the presidential mind?
Plus you get to eat the proceeds.
We applaud.
Labels: Barack Obama, gardening, Michelle Obama
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
So Sorry
I heard It call my name. Quite distinctly.So ... time out, while we get our hands dirty.
Labels: gardening
