While we still have your attention we are going to start with this listing of plants: Allium ‘Summer Beauty’, Stachys ‘Hummelo’, Carex ‘Ice Dance’, Carex pensylvanica, Hemerocallis ‘Stella D’Oro’, Agastache ‘Blue Fortune’, and Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blue Heaven™ pp 17310. What has happened here at Twixwood is that Dianne and I have taken over a nursery […]
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The popular Twixwood Newsletter, Leaflet, by Tom Kimmel.
This newsletter is being written by Tom Kimmel because the nursery is being run by his wife, Dianne, who is the brains of the outfit and she is thus busy working and worrying about the money so I am the person with the time and psychic energy. Dianne and I now own Twixwood. I was […]
Read More...Well, The Frost is On the Punkin Man, isn’t this a great time of year? The kids are back in school… Football on the T.V… Things are slowing down a bit… Beautiful Fall sunrises & sunsets! For the most part, the weather has been good… no big droughts for the Midwest this year. Actually, with […]
Read More...Well the general madness of Spring has subsided somewhat as we turn the corner into Summer. We’ve had several things happen this season that I feel are worth mentioning… First on the list I’d like to announce that Mark Regazzi will be leaving Twixwood in another month to begin his studies in Law at DePaul […]
Read More...More is learned from one’s errors than from one’s successes. Primo Levi Rule #4 from “The New Market Wizards” by Jack D. Schwager “There are a million ways to make money in markets. The irony is that they are all very difficult to find.” While cheerfully signing accounts payable checks recently I noticed that it […]
Read More...“It’s when it rains that you can pee your pants with a quiet mind.” “In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz, Living on the brink of disaster in Mobutu’s Congo” – by Arthur Herman The purpose of this newsletter is to sell 2 gallon grasses. You will want to note the 4,000 Calamagrostis ‘Karl Foerster’, 1,000 […]
Read More...“I don’t get drunk as much anymore because I don’t have as much to get drunk about.” – Willie Nelson The New Yorker, October 7, 2002 page 57 General Creighton Abrams’ immortal Pig Rule: “Never wrestle with pigs-you get dirty, and they enjoy it!” – A Better War, the unexamined victories and final tragedy of […]
Read More...“The first step to wisdom, as the Chinese say, is getting things by their right names.” page 4, “Consilience, the unity of knowledge” by Edward O. Wilson “Success, like war and charity in religion, covers a multitude of sins.” Sir Charles Napier as quoted on page 345 “How the Scots Invented the Modern World, the […]
Read More...“Taste is the adversary of originality” – Anonymous, IKEA advertisement “The tendency to impute order to ambiguous stimuli is simply built into the cognitive machinery we use to apprehend the world. It may have been bred into us through evolution because of its general adaptivness.” – Gilovich, “Heuristics of Judgment: Extensions and applications” Lou Kimmel […]
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