Ink & Penstemon
Observations on plants and gardening from the Great Basin steppe in the American West.
I&P has a new look! I hope you like this new tiling format; I wanted it to be easier for you to view and access the blog's content. Newer posts will always appear at the top of the page. Clicking on a post's icon—pencil, link, video, etc.—will expand the comment box and other features for that post. Clicking on a photo icon will give you a better look at photos in smaller posts.
Along the bottom of the page is a navigation bar with links to the blog's archive, RSS feed, post randomizer, and one for those who would just like to ask me a question about anything. If you get mired in something while wandering, clicking on the Penstemon barbatus 'Elfin Pink' will return you the homepage.
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“My garden is an extension of me, of the things that please me. Forced for most of our lives to operate in a world that is bizarre and irrational (as well as ugly), our gardens become bubbles, protective carapaces. In my garden, I can order the world in a way that fits my needs. The ordering, the making of this world, no matter how long it takes, gives one self-esteem (which in not the same thing as vanity or conceit)…. ‘A garden is process, not a product.’ In the hands of a garden designer, it has little option but to become a product.”
The Curious Gardener, Anna Pavord. Bloomsbury, 2010. p. 283. It’s a gorgeous and well made book and deserves to be in every library, garden-themed or not.
