EDITORletter
Credits Kathy Jentz Editor/Publisher & Advertising Sales Washington Gardener 826 Philadelphia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 Phone: 301-588-6894 kathyjentz@gmail.com www.washingtongardener.com Call today to place your ad with us! Ruth E. Thaler-Carter Proofreader Maeve Dunigan, Uyen Nguyen, and Nicole Reisinger Interns Cover price: $4.99 Back issues: $6.00 Subscription: $20.00 The wedding reception of KC Kelly and Llewellyn McIntyre in Wheaton, MD.
Your editor posing in a giant bird’s nest in the Washington Youth Garden at the U.S. National Arboretum during the recent Garlic Planting Party event.
A Hidden World Revealed
As the leaves drop off the trees and the freezing temps shrivel up my perennial foliage, things are slowly revealed in my garden. I found an American Robin’s nest in the crook of a branch, mere inches from a pedestrian call button on my busy street corner. Now open and naked to the world, I cannot believe it existed in such a hidden, yet exposed, location. This might be the same Robin who follows my weeding and planting efforts—staying just inches from my heels—waiting impatiently to dive onto any revealed worms. I cut the base of a English ivy vine that was snaking up an oak tree. A few weeks later, the top of the vine started to thin out and die back. I looked up to check its progress and saw several pairs of eyes staring back at me. A raccoon family was none to happy about my exposure of their once-sheltered tree spot. Cleaning out my community garden plot, I found the unmistakable fluffs of rabbit fur. A mom bunny had made a cozy little den in the midst of my Asparagus patch. That explains the repeated nibbling-to-death of all my green bean seedlings! They say there is a hidden world beneath our feet in the soil, but that is only the tip of the wildlife habitats and secret worlds all around us. Happy gardening!
Kathy Jentz, Editor/Publisher, Washington Gardener, KathyJentz@gmail.com 4
WASHINGTON GARDENER NOVEMBER 2017
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