Words to Garden By
Contributed by Carol Herwig, TWiG committee chair Henry Mitchell was the garden columnist for The Washington Post, appearing weekly in thefeature section for more than 25 years. He must shoulder some of the blame for my interest in gardens and plants and trees, although he was more of a azalea man than an oak fan.He wrote about the right way to dig an iris bed, about how to adorn the fence between yourand your neighbor’s yard, about how to plant a clematis (dig deep, spread the roots and waitthree years).His columns were collected in a series of books – my…