ROLLA Mo. -- Charlotte Ekker Wiggins introducing a friend to her bees.
Garden Notes
Do you keep a diary?
I do, and for a number of things, from my house maintenance to beekeeping and gardening. Those diaries were the inspiration for my weekly free newsletter "Garden Notes," a diary entry of sorts about what is happening, or about to happen.
Garden Notes is distributed at 5 a.m. CST on Sundays and again on Wednesdays in case you missed it the first time around.
The stories are a combination of how-to, who-did and what happened. This is not your traditional North American gardening. My vegetables co-mingle scattered in flower borders or in pots, my ornamental trees tend to be natives or dwarf fruit trees and there is no grass to be mowed. If it isn't easy, effective and low maintenance, I skip it.
Sometimes, in spite of myself, I find a thriving wildlife garden and Monarch Way Station on my hillside, and maybe that's the biggest lesson of all. Our gardens are living, changing environments. If you have never sat under a tree in spring and listened to all of the wonderful sounds of nature, mark your calendar this year to do so. Studies show our spending time outside in nature and away from all of the constantly-demanding technology, is healthy for us. I know that because, even before we were all electronically connected, I recharged my emotional and spiritual batteries in my garden.
Now don't confuse me with any gourmet cook or high brown horticulture specialist, I don't claim to be either one. What I want to show you is that there are some easy things we can all do, from what to cook what you can easily grow at home, and simply add beauty to where we all live. In doing so, you are also being kind to nature, to our home planet, and ultimately, to ourselves and each other.
Won't you join me?
Charlotte
Do you keep a diary?
I do, and for a number of things, from my house maintenance to beekeeping and gardening. Those diaries were the inspiration for my weekly free newsletter "Garden Notes," a diary entry of sorts about what is happening, or about to happen.
Garden Notes is distributed at 5 a.m. CST on Sundays and again on Wednesdays in case you missed it the first time around.
The stories are a combination of how-to, who-did and what happened. This is not your traditional North American gardening. My vegetables co-mingle scattered in flower borders or in pots, my ornamental trees tend to be natives or dwarf fruit trees and there is no grass to be mowed. If it isn't easy, effective and low maintenance, I skip it.
Sometimes, in spite of myself, I find a thriving wildlife garden and Monarch Way Station on my hillside, and maybe that's the biggest lesson of all. Our gardens are living, changing environments. If you have never sat under a tree in spring and listened to all of the wonderful sounds of nature, mark your calendar this year to do so. Studies show our spending time outside in nature and away from all of the constantly-demanding technology, is healthy for us. I know that because, even before we were all electronically connected, I recharged my emotional and spiritual batteries in my garden.
Now don't confuse me with any gourmet cook or high brown horticulture specialist, I don't claim to be either one. What I want to show you is that there are some easy things we can all do, from what to cook what you can easily grow at home, and simply add beauty to where we all live. In doing so, you are also being kind to nature, to our home planet, and ultimately, to ourselves and each other.
Won't you join me?
Charlotte
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