The Education of a Gardener: Learning by Trowel and Error
This week’s guest is Bart Ziegler, who writes the online gardening column for the Wall Street Journal. Experience has been his guide through eleven years of gardening at his weekend property two hours north of New York City. Bart tells tales of some of what he has come to understand about design, timing, plant-lust, and most of all perhaps, his gardening partner – nature.
Bart Ziegler’s 10 Lessons, Learned the Hard Way
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All the islands are volcanic in origin. Their source is a volcanic rift in the ocean floor called the Hawaiian Emperor vent, which lies deep under water seventy miles south and east of Hawaii, the so-called ‘Big Island’.