Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Pepper Sonnet “Pepper Sonnet” is exactly what it sounds like: a poetic tribute, in sonnet form, to the humble pepper. A pepper? Seriously? Hey, here in The Renaissance Garden Guy, everyone gets a fair shake. Even peppers. So relax, enjoy the tribute, take a bite out of a pepper, […]
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Luck of the Iris: Caring for the Siberian Iris Colony That Never Stood a Chance Under normal circumstances, caring for a Siberian iris plant and its colony of fellow Siberian irises is a snap. These plants are hardy as hell and extremely forgiving of all sorts of less
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A Reading of the Poem, “Canopy” Today’s feature marks a first for not just The Renaissance Garden Guy, but for me, as well. You’ll find that it’s the premier entry in The RGG’s Poetry Slams and Readings category in Sights and Sounds. And it represents the first time ever
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Flowers from Days Gone By Beginning with the printing of her first seed catalog in 1896, Miss Emma V. White of Minneapolis, Minnesota sold beautiful flower seeds to appreciative gardeners throughout the United States. Her lovingly illustrated catalogs were works of art in and of themselves, and they clearly
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Canopy I’ve got a poem here for you. One of my own. It’s sort of a free verse/prose poem hybrid, but I actually kind of liked it, so here it is. My poem, “Canopy.” By John G. Stamos Canopy John G. Stamos Motors run, and the sound of rubber
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Two Websites, Two Hosting Services The John G. Stamos digital scribbling stable has grown. The Renaissance Garden Guy is now joined by A Man for Some Seasons on the roster. And one is hosted by Hosting.com (formerly A2 Hosting) while the other resides on a Bluehost server. That’s right.
Porcelain, Tile, and Brass “Porcelain, Tile, and Brass” is my original short story, published for the first time, right here in The Renaissance Garden Guy. By John G. Stamos Porcelain, Tile, and Brass John G. Stamos The outbuilding sat on the periphery of a fenced coal mining operation’s property. It was small, made of brick,
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Holiday Wish for You My Holiday wish for you is a lifelong one. You can grant it yourself by always remembering to take the short view. By John G. Stamos Well, now, readers and subscribers, perched right here on the cusp of 2024, with the Christmas Holiday in
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Wendy’s: Portal to a Parallel World Parallel worlds exist! For a wormhole near you, look no further than your neighborhood Wendy’s. By John G. Stamos After being skeptical my entire adult life, I’m now convinced that parallel worlds exist. Theoretical physicists have been looking for tangible evidence of this
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