Sleep, Creep, Leap: the First Three Years of a Nebraska Garden

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Title page; 2007-2008; First Garden First; Much Mulch; A Rock. A Stone. A Mountain.; Four!; The Circuit; 10am Nursery #1; 11am Nursery #2; 12 noon Nursery #3; 1:30pm Nursery #4; Cassia hebecarpa -- Wild Senna; Skin; The Perfect Hole; So much depends upon a wood chip glazed with fountain water beside the swamp milkweed; The Research Assistant Couldn't Experiment With Plants Because He Hadn't Botany; Hatchback Trees; 2009; 650 Crocus Bulbs; Fire Pit / Bird Bath; Geum triflorum -- Prairie Smoke; Mr. Mows All The Time; UPS, FedEx, USPS; The Naming; Deadheading Grasshoppers.;Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, SLEEP, CREEP, LEAP will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest-and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.