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Close-up of a medlar fruit ripening in late autumn sunlight. This ancient Persian fruit, prized for its sweet flavor after frost, thrives in Pacific Northwest gardens and permaculture orchards.

Sweet After the Freeze: Remembering Growing, and Eating the Medlar

Long after apples are gone and pears are stored away, the medlar still hangs—brown, frost-touched, and waiting. It’s a fruit that sweetens only after the cold, a reminder that not everything worth tasting comes in season.

Wolfy

Oct 134 min read

I'm Done Growing Annual Vegetables: An Elegy for Classic Gardening and Landscape Design

I love vegetables. I love to eat them. I’ve eaten them on porches and back steps, under summer light and winter cloud. I’ve pulled them...

Wolfy

Jul 123 min read

Vintage botanical illustration of heirloom plum varieties — Imperial Gage, Blue Damson, Lombard, Magnum, and Yellow Egg — rendered in soft watercolor tones, showing the diversity of fruit color and form.

Small Space? Design Smart and Taste the Pacific Northwest’s Fruit Abundance

Since the first monastery gardens of Europe, growers have wrestled with the same quiet dilemma—how to fit Eden into a courtyard. The problem is not new. Every walled garden, every cloister orchard, was a study in constraint: soil, sun, and stone dictating what could live together and what must be left out. Space has always been the gardener’s first teacher.

Wolfy

Feb 21, 20203 min read

pendragon orchard and vine

There's No Place Like Loam

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Sweet After the Freeze: Remembering Growing, and Eating the Medlar

I'm Done Growing Annual Vegetables: An Elegy for Classic Gardening and Landscape Design

Small Space? Design Smart and Taste the Pacific Northwest’s Fruit Abundance