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Here’s a late season portfolio from the backyard garden that gave us a productive flowery summer. Top to bottom: hibiscus, stonecrop, zinnia, black-eyed susan or coneflower/rudbeckia.—PM
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Read More »Here’s another bulletin from the South Common Historic District about the cultivated and wild things on my property.–PM Today’s picture is a small garden tower delivered by my brother Richard, my oldest brother, who is good at finding unusual items along the way. Arriving home one afternoon recently, I saw…
Read More »This is the fifth in a series of reports about wild and cultivated things on my property in the South Common Historic District, close to the Lowell Connector and Thorndike-Dutton gateway into the city. These updates are offered in the spirit of The Flowering City, a concept about 20 years…
Read More »This is the fourth is what will be an occasional series of bulletins about the cultivated and wild things on my property in the South Common Historic District, upland from Hale’s or River Meadow Brook and the Concord River, just at the edge of the industrial core of the city.…
Read More »This is the second in a series of posts about what’s happening with cultivated and wild things on my property in the South Common Historic District.— PM The birds. The birds. As a kid, one of my favorite movies was Alfred Hitchcock’s ominous 1963 movie “The Birds” with Tippi Hedren…
Read More »I will post updates on the wild and cultivated things around my house this spring and summer in the spirit of the “Flowering City” concept of our community. These are my notes from yesterday when the morning air was cooler than today.—PM The air still has a chill in it…
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