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by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
Plants get sick. They develop soft rot and leaf spot and cankers of all sorts. They suffer ulcerous lesions, mildews, and various wilts and scabs.
Apple trees get fire blight, which blackens their leaves and twigs and is sometimes fatal. Potatoes are susceptible to late blight, as 19th [...]
by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1996. All rights reserved.
“O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born!”
– Othello, Act IV, Scene II
As spring gives way to summer, most [...]
by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1992. All rights reserved.
I’ve been clearing away calendars and planting new ones. It’s like digging up the gnarly vines and withered roots of last year’s growth. I turn the pages of days gone past, tilling a bed for new year’s sowing.
Days and months and [...]
Bellevue, Idaho — A crowd of about two dozen curious onlookers gathered on the banks of Rock Creek in southwest Blaine County to watch the planting of a willow slip.
Dr. Bruce Lium, a specialist in riparian vegetation, held the long willow branch in his hands and described how he encourages the brushy plant to [...]
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