Dead Maples & Award Winning Gardeners

An October installment of Rootbound Clippings

I’m careful not to trip as I make my way up to the podium. I look out at the large crowd, hold up the award I’ve just been presented and exhale deeply. I’m temporarily speechless but, eventually, I begin –

“This dream began on a summer day in 2020 when I covered our lawn with the very first rectangle of cardboard. That was my first of many days of sheet …