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Kathy Purdy's Gardening Life

Life viewed through the lens of gardening in rural New York, USDA Hardiness Zone 5

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Gardening as Therapy

It recently helped me through a rough time

Coping with drought

It messes with my head as well as my garden

My North Hill Garden Obsession

"It was as if I had been living in a foreign country for many years, and had unexpectedly found someone who spoke my native tongue."

Have you been hit by the gardener's high?

or are you beauty-blind in your own garden?

How did gardening become my life?

I don't answer the question; I merely illustrate it

Plant Collecting: The Danger is Real

And spreadsheets might be involved

Narcissus: The Family Heirloom

and a romantic memento

What Failure Taught Me

It made me a better gardener when I thought I was getting worse

What Makes a Garden, a Garden?

I know it when I see it, but how do I make it?

Where are the spring bulbs?

You should plant some for me.

The Worst Cabin Fever of My Life

. . . and what I learned from it