Minimalist Gardening Mugs

'Low maintenance gardening'

Gardener clipping topiary stairs

Bonsai tree held up by matchstick

'Mom says I can become an eviromedalist as soon as I learn how to pronounce it.'

"It keeps it out of sight when we're not watching it."

"Not to mention the park view."

Japanese woman in minimalist house reads 'How to Clutter Your Life'

Gardener with window box and giant slug.

Bonsai Exhibit

If we build raised beds and a compost bin now

Spring in Japan.

City Zoo: 'Try our exotic composts in your garden.'

How's this mulch for improving my soil? Not good. It's full of toxic wood chips. They poison the dirt and don't decompose. Just what I need. Subprime loam.

Cool Z enters his minimalist period.

Mowing the Bottle-Garden

Less is more.

"The tiny red things were harvested from Frankie's bonsai tree."

"We're temporarily located in an office park, so it would be best if we came to you."

Hydroponic Gardening

'Daddy, why is that man wearing a blank T-shirt?'

And do you, Sue, believe this is the best you can do? / It was a simple ceremony. Perhaps a little too simple.

It's nice, but we were hoping for something unfurnished.

"He's so ostentatious about how un-ostentatious he is."

Too much packaging

"I was in corporate sales for years but then I realized, I'm a gatherer not a hunter."

"I suppose, you being a cartoonist, vertical gardening is just another way to get column inches."

"Do you have this in a flat brown sandal?"

'You can see the artist has tried to capture man's aspirations, using a minimalist language.'

Waiting For Godot And The Cable Guy

"Says here tiny houses are the hot new trend. Didn't I always tell you we're ahead of our time, Doris?"

"Make it a gallon and a half. I'm living one day at a time."

Minimalist Painter.

Thoughts? A tad skimpy. Try this one. It's too long and old-fashioned. Think of it as radical modesty. Nana! Modesty is not ecological. It's 100% cotton. But think of the yards of wasted fabric! I conserve the moral fabric.

The message that status symbols were so last year was getting through...

"This book is the future of literature. It is paper-free to help save the planet and completely free of words and images so no one is offended."