Green gardening
Our garden welcomed me home after a week in Texas, first visiting family in Austin, but most of the week spent at the Garden Writers Association annual conference in Dallas. The cool greens and yellows in the perennial borders, the big trees, the pocket lawn framed by perennials, not to mention a flourishing array of fall greens was heartening and the songs of singing crickets are loud outside the open window. There were interesting gardens in Dallas, to be sure, and wonderful educational sessions, but the meeting took place in a huge conference hotel at the end of downtown. Being indoors in windowless rooms for long spells of sitting each afternoon is not my idea of fun, no matter how interesting. I attended every session, however, and found it well worth the time and effort (and personal expense). Mornings and afternoons spent on garden tours don't provide enough of an antidote to real 'green' though, as the gardens we visited were often extravagant, some totally ove...