{"id":2313,"date":"2007-11-22T11:48:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/gardenlog\/?p=2313"},"modified":"2017-07-19T20:28:06","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T01:28:06","slug":"cornucopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/garden-essays\/cornucopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornucopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Americans celebrate our national holiday of giving thanks. One symbol of this harvest festival is the cornucopia, the horn of plenty overflowing with the fruits of the harvest.<\/p>\n<p>That first Thanksgiving, native Americans shared a bountiful harvest with European settlers who were starving. They also shared their knowledge of the American flora, teaching the settlers how to grow corn, squash, and beans. Sharing the harvest&#8211;sounds like garden bloggers. <!-- In the mood of general thanks, I'm grateful for lots of things this year, some important and others trival: that SAM is here from Connecticut to be with his father, that we have a kitchen to cook and eat our Thanksgiving dinner in, that I get to have lunch with JQS once a week, that both my parents are still alive and well, that we were able to visit AJM's family in England this year and that his mother came to stay with us for two weeks, that I have all new appliances for the first time in my life (a dishwasher for the first time in my life), that I had the opportunity to work on an interesting translation project, that Austin had a cool and rainy summer, that despite the ravages of raccoons I've only lost four goldfish, that AJM loves to cook and is good at it. --><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m grateful that you&#8217;ve chosen to share your gardens with me through your photos and your writing on your own blogs and your comments left here. I&#8217;ve learned about stringing up tomatoes, the possible danger of pecan leaves, how to adapt a power drill into a bulb-hole digger, and where to look for locally grown food. More importantly, I get a chance to peek into your gardens, celebrate your successes, and suffer with you through your disappointments. I feel lucky to have gardening friends all over the world. And, largely thanks to the efforts of Pam\/Digging (Austin&#8217;s Garden Blogger booster), I&#8217;ve met a lot of new gardeners right here in Austin. Not only do I always have a blast when we get together, but I&#8217;m often the recipient of wonderful passalong plants. Your generosity is my horn of plenty, the cornucopia running over. My garden truly grows because I know you.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks this year:<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penick.net\/digging\/\">Pam\/Digging<\/a> (for sharing plants and her clever garden designs and for getting the Austin Garden bloggers together)<br \/>\n* <a href=\"http:\/\/annieinaustin.blogspot.com\/\">Annie in Austin<\/a> (for sharing plants and knowledge and wisdom and heart&#8211;her writing is the tops and she&#8217;s just as wonderful person)<br \/>\n* Yolanda Elizabet @ <a href=\"http:\/\/blissyo-elgarden.blogspot.com\/\">Bliss<\/a> (for pure inspiration and gentle humor)<br \/>\n* Carol @ <a href=\"http:\/\/maydreamsgardens.blogspot.com\/index.html\">May Dreams Gardens<\/a> (for Garden Bloggers Bloom Day and Garden Bloggers Book Club)<br \/>\n* Stuart Robinson @ Gardening Tips &#8216;n&#8217; Ideas (for the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog-directory.gardeningtipsnideas.com\/html\/contact.html\">Gardening Blog Directory<\/a>)<br \/>\n* Angelina @ <a href=\"http:\/\/dustpanalley.blogspot.com\/\">Dustpan Alley<\/a> (for exploring the politics of eating locally  and sharing her adventures in canning and preserving and for writing that is brutally honest)<br \/>\n* Kathy Purdy @ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldclimategardening.com\/index.php\">Cold Climate Gardening<\/a> (for giving me a thrill the day I read her &#8220;Today&#8217;s Gardening Quote&#8221; and saw she&#8217;d quoted me. It was great to finally meet in the flesh after years of knowing each other online.)<br \/>\n* Steve Mudge (who doesn&#8217;t have a blog, yet, but who usually leaves a comment)<br \/>\n* to all of the former lurkers who jumped into the conversation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/photos\/320\/zexmenia1.jpg\" alt=\"Zanthan Gardens meadow\" \/><br \/><i>A gift from Pam\/Digging, this zexmenia is a reminder of the sharing nature of this community of gardeners. It&#8217;s a little droopy because I just planted it yesterday afternoon when tempertures hit a record high of 89F\/31C before dropping to 37F\/3C this morning.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2313\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zanthan.com\/gardens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}