Posts made in August, 2017

Crabgrass: Green Spider

Posted by on Aug 29, 2017 in summer, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Crabgrass: Green Spider

It’s the closest thing in the plant world to a spider: many-legged, sprawling, sneaky, ubiquitous. Hated.

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Herman Melville: Arrowhead

Posted by on Aug 24, 2017 in Unmowed Authors, Unmowed Blog | 2 comments

Herman Melville: Arrowhead

It was here, far from the sea, that Melville wrote the craziest, wordiest, most magnificent novel ever to baffle generations of high school students and send shivers down the spine: Moby Dick.

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Cross Creek: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Posted by on Aug 23, 2017 in Unmowed Authors, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Cross Creek: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

Perhaps more than any other writer, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings showed her love of the land in her writing. Trees and flowers flowed all through her pages.

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Unmowed Authors

Posted by on Aug 21, 2017 in Unmowed Authors, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Unmowed Authors

Can plants create great literature? Of course they can, plants can do anything.

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Birdsfoot Trefoil: Unmowed

Posted by on Aug 18, 2017 in flowers, summer, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Birdsfoot Trefoil: Unmowed

Here’s what can happen when the mower goes AWOL.

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