A Blog for Mostly Local Dilettante Gardening Types
Hi there. My name is Susan and I garden wearing a pink hat. Usually. Sometimes it’s brown. I’m an amateur gardener, living in Utah. In my professional life, I’m a printer and typographer. That being said, I don’t consider myself to be a writer, despite having written an article for Wilder Quarterly (/shameless plug).
Utah is a fantastic place, intersected by many different ecoregions and full of incredible landscapes and unique remarkable plants that are only just beginning to enter the gardening world. Its unusual plants and dry steppe demand a different style of gardening than the rest of the U.S. and Europe practices, so any garden here is an experiment. I’ve got bare dirt, failing plants, and weedy ground playing out in realtime. I hope that this blog helps you locals who are attempting to create beautiful gardens yourselves. I challenge you to accept cactus in your garden. It will change your life. For those who come here from outside the West, I hope that I can open your eyes to different landscapes and a new type of beauty.
Banner photo credit: Steve Hegji, Oenothera pallida