GreenPrints #044, Winter 2000-01

Description

This back issue of The Weeder’s Digest includes the following gardening stories and tales:

Miracle in a Dixie Cup
The astonishing promise of a seed.

The Gift of a Wreath
Finding Christmas in a nursing home

The Holiday Newsletter
Sharing the simply mah-vel-ous gardening year.

Grandma’s Boys
Pulling the troops–uh, African violets–through the Big One.

Grown in a Greenhouse
Yet, somehow, I never took root.

Like a Leaf
How my garden helped me jump out of a plane at 13,000 feet.

Plant Life, Human Life
Of care, connection, and perseverance.

Guardian to a Pea
A plant collector meets his match—the coveted parsley pea.

Like White Roses in a Wet Spring
Mike McGrath’s wretched rose mishap.

Poinsettiacide
The holidays are over, but a certain houseguest refuses to leave.

On the Brink
The end of winter is the beginning— of a wild ride.

Good Neighbors
Of fences, gardens, lawns, dogs, and children.

I Love Seed Catalogs!
I do, I do, I do!

To My Healing
In my garden.