A couple of weeks ago, the NYU student Jessica Wright came to the garden to film a short documentary. She picked one of the few grey days that we have had in months. But this did not make her movie gloomy. She allowed me to… Continue Reading
Summer is over now and the asters are beginning to bloom. But there are still sunflowers! Did you know that there are about 70 species of sunflowers? Almost all of them are native to North America. The common sunflower is Helianthus… Continue Reading
Today, I noticed lots of mushrooms under the pine tree in the “North Garden”. I don’t think that we had mushrooms in the garden before. Maybe mulching with wood chips a few years back created the right conditions for them to grow now. Unfortunately,… Continue Reading
On September 18th, we discovered yet another rooster in the garden. According to my records, this was the 16th chicken that mysteriously appeared among our plants. Almost every year since 2008, one or two roosters showed up over night. Some of these… Continue Reading
Last week, we noticed that one big branch of our apple tree had suddenly gone dry. There were still apples on it, but clearly, this branch was dead. It was hanging over the sidewalk and was too high for us to… Continue Reading