Star Gardener | By Abby Jane Brody
Wish List for 2009
It’s not too early to start a wish list for next year. And, I’ve just encountered a “new” daphne that belongs at the top of the list:  Daphne x transatlantica Eternal Fragrance.

Nature Notes | By Larry Penny
A Paean to Mosses
When brown leaves cover the ground and the trees stand naked like Halloween skeletons, this is when the mosses shine the most. Yes, they are primitive, they don’t produce showy flowers or edible seeds, but they’ve been here longer than those that do, a hundred million years or so more. Once started, mosses, like liverworts, could live forever!

On the Water | By Russell Drumm
Coming Through in Batches
It’s still too warm for the river of striped bass to stop flowing south on migration from New England, but not cold enough for the herring to show, although the presence of wheeling and diving gannets could make you think otherwise.

Notes From Madoo | By Robert Dash
Peering
Never has glass been so appealing, each and every pane and every pane of each and every window full of color toppling, swiveling, gliding, tumbling, flung slant or straight, eager, slow, indifferent, all of the garnets, opals, chyrsoprase, hide, mouse, fawn, and all of the hues of earth tilled and untilled.