Aesop’s Grasshopper

Aesop didn’t paint the grasshopper in a favorable light.  While the industrious ant was busy working for its winter stores of food, the useless grasshopper was frittering its time away. I share Aesop’s opinion of the grasshopper – useless. Yes, it’s grasshopper vacuuming season for me.  If you don’t know what that means, see my …

Connect in Place

Do you talk to your plants? I am fascinated by the idea of plants communicating with us and with other plants.  I’ll explore both topics this month.  Today I will look at how plants communicate with one another and later this month, in The Language of Flowers, I’ll look at how plants communicate with us. …