Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Aah, fragrance!
Aah, fragrance! That elusive, evocative, and deeply personal quality of flowers that is so often unexplored in most gardens. Right now, in high summer, my garden is offering up an olfactory buffet. Coming home after dinner with an old friend from my undergrad days, we were stopped mid-conversation with the the distinctive scent of night…
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Gardening and the senses
Why write a gardening blog when gardening is so much about all five senses – sight, sound, smell, touch and taste – think dark purple plums with the dichotomy of their tart skin and juicy, sweet flesh. We are just wrapping up plum season and getting impatient for peaches. Google does this amazing thing where…
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3000 words
Since a picture is worth a thousand words… A few pictures of my garden from earlier this year:Bottom center are a couple of my potted citrus trees, Oroblanco grapefruit and Moro blood orange. Right behind them are three of my potted figs. All of them have fruit now and it’s surprising to see the variety…
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Winter Quietude
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost Don’t quite know what brought this poem, one of my favorites, to mind suddenly today. Maybe as I was enjoying the hush of a winter afternoon, I was reminded…
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Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
The title of this post is from John Keats’ “To Autumn”. I grew up on a wholesome diet of romantic English poetry. While mostly forgotten, a line or two often float up unbidden, and so aptly describe my own thoughts, I can do no more than salute the poet. For a gardener, Spring and Summer is when all…
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