Ice cream, pickled eggs, stuffed olives, garden hoses, cap pistols, cat food: as I go down the rows I'm put in mind of a back roads bodega, a Southern version of a general store in the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood where I used to live.
Though we can't do without the green stuff, gardening implies more than just a love of plants.
Today, paddy fields surround Mizushima's property and the farm is populated with palm and almond trees, as well as an organic garden stuffed with ginger plants and vegetables.
These rooms also come with wicker chairs at their doors from which to view the delightful pine- and orchid-stuffed garden.
That's the signal to get on the train and head for your favorite flower show -- to wallow in woodland gardens impossibly blooming with dogwoods and shadbush, and drool over English gardens stuffed with blue delphiniums.
And every family put up a lot of stuff, not only garden stuff, but wild stuff — wild-grape jelly, and wild-plum jelly, and huckleberries.
Laid out on a sloping plot the size of 20 football pitches, this inspirational garden is stuffed with Europe's largest collection of drought-loving plants: cacti, succulents and palms.
This entertaining group show, organized by a Providence-based collective called Chronoplastics, offers Mototake Makishima's bizarre and funny video of mysteriously animated clay running amok, Pattie Lee Becker's otherwordly garden of stuffed fabric plants, rich grid-patterned fabric works by Gregory Gangemi and primitivistic crayon drawings of monsters and aliens by Meerk Puffy (Johnson).
Instead, she may approach Yahoo! as she does her life, or her garden in Atherton, stuffed at various times with everything from heirloom tomatoes to bearded irises.
Near the end, the boy notes, "Now he's pretty old and he sometimes forgets things" — that's where a topiary elephant comes in — "but the important stuff the garden remembers for him".
