Simple Life
Summer twilight The brief, magical time between day and night by Jim Dodson Illustration by Gerry ONeill Not long ago as a beautiful summer evening settled around us, my wife and I were sitting [...]
Simple Life
The incomplete gardener We dream and scheme — and forever learn. by Jim Dodson Over the past five years, I’ve been building a garden in the old neighborhood where I grew up, a garden of shade and [...]
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Death of a Green Dragon A gardener’s bittersweet reminder of life’s impermanence By Jim Dodson Last month, I returned from my first trip since the start of the pandemic to discover a baffling [...]
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Simple Gifts The secret to a good life? Less is more By Jim Dodson A friend recently wondered why I named this column “Simple Life.” I joked that it was better than the original name I came up [...]
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In the Beginning A grande dame, an old beech and other memory-keepers on the path to this gardener’s genesis By Jim Dodson Fifteen years ago, a grande dame of English gardening named Mirabel [...]