I live on a smidge more than quarter of an acre, and over the years I have planted about ten trees, a dozen shrubs, countless perennials, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Some of these gardening experiments turned out brilliantly \u2013 the wispy stick of a birch stuck in the ground the fall we moved in is now a looming tree, whose cinnamon bark peels off in layers. Other choices have been less than stellar, such as the heavenly-scented Daphne that cost a small fortune and caught a chill her first winter, promptly keeling over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019ve come to realize that gardening has taught me much about writing.\u00a0\u00a0 I live on a smidge more than quarter of an acre, and over the years I have planted about ten trees, a dozen shrubs, countless perennials, herbs, vegetables, and fruits. Some of these gardening experiments turned out brilliantly \u2013 the wispy stick of a birch stuck in the ground the fall we moved in is … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aggieblumthompson.com\/staging\/2456\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Read my full essay at Women Writers, Women’s Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"