Plants in the Wild
When The Going Gets Tough, Botanize!
by Ketzel Levine
A lot of the people in my life had very unusual holidays. Certainly the economy had something to do with it, as did the weather, and a sad variety of different illnesses.
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Way Beyond The Garden
Talking Unemployment
by Ketzel Levine
NPR Talking Plants blogger Ketzel Levine begins to talk about being laid off this week.
Way Beyond The Garden
When The Cows Don't Come Home
by Ketzel Levine
If you happen to be a vegetarian, the news that a farmer's been losing money on his cattle and has decided to sell them is a good thing. The equation's very simple: fewer cows, fewer cows slaughtered.
Plants and Design
Camellias At Dusk In A Chinese Garden
by Ketzel Levine
If it isn't already on your radar for the trip you will inevitably take to my fair city, Portland, OR. (enough about theirs), do not choose between this and fill-i
Private Gardens
What Happened to November?
by Ketzel Levine
I know it's amusing when death takes a holiday (see: movies, books, musicals, The Sopranos, etc), but infinitely less popular when a blogger does the same. And I didn't even go anywhere, at least not physically, though I do remember enjoying mysel...
Plants and Politics
WHO? White House Organics, That's W.H.O.
by Ketzel Levine
The chorus is growing louder and louder to get our President-elect to convert a few acres of the White House lawn into a productive organic farm.
TP Flickr Pix
Winter Dip Into Our Flickr Pool
by Ketzel Levine
Radial blurs and sepia tones are showing up among the flora in the Talking Plants Flickr pool.
Hot Gardeners
Great American Garden Survives Santa Barbara Fires
by Ketzel Levine
When the Santa Barbara fire began last week in the community of Montecito, I thought of two people: T.C.Boyle and Ganna Walska.
Hot Gardeners
Welcome To Candyland: Portland's Platt Garden
by Ketzel Levine
It's a candyland of yellow, purple, red, blue and silver foliage at one of Portland's oldest and botanically best private gardens.
Hot Gardeners
An Autumnal Peek At A Great American Garden
by Ketzel Levine
The campaign promises are over; now to deliver the sublime, as we throw open the gates of a private Portland garden on the headiest day of American democracy we are ever likely to know.
Good Ol' Plants
The Sun Break Season
by Ketzel Levine
After my dog ran away, my house was broken into, my water heater burst and a flu invaded my body, I'm still willing to believe in autumn foliage as its backlit by a Northwest sun.
Way Beyond The Garden
Exclusive Interview With Runaway Beagle
by Ketzel Levine
In an exclusive interview with Ketzel Levine's runaway beagle who has just returned from four days on the road, a wannabe Brooke Gladstone of On The Media fame gets to the bottom of the story.
Way Beyond The Garden
The Beagle Has Landed
by Ketzel Levine
That's the headline, the happy ending details TOMORROW!!
