“There must be a floor plan before a house can be built, a good dress requires a pattern and a good meal means recipes and menu planning. We provide for all of these as necessities, but when it comes .
“Occasionally, the issues were more serious, as when a nurseryman presumed to tell them how to run their business. This, they would not tolerate.” Valencia Libby, “The Northwest Gardens of Lord &.
“(Boxwood), as an ornamental, has earned its position of aristocracy by a quality that practically borders immortality. I mean by this that once established, the plant will live on through many genera.
“Elizabeth gladly took up her mother’s interest in gardening, helping her with events for the Salem Floral Society (later the Salem Garden Club), founded by her mother in 1915, which was the first gar.
“[I]t wasn’t until I cracked open Eleanor Perenyi’s “Green Thoughts,” a tart, smart and beautifully written set of alphabetical essays . that I realized how much was really going on here, right unde.