Tag: Birds
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Gardening at Dawn on a Summer-Like Day
I love gardening at dawn on a summer morning. Cool enough to pull weeds, prune branches, deadhead, plant, lay mulch as I did this last weekend-of-May Sunday. Yet it’s warm enough for shorts and a tshirt. It’s a time of birdsong and quiet in the neighborhood. No noisy lawn mowers, leaf blowers, or power songs.…
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Tools of Enchantment
I’m happy to post a link to my feature article in WaterShapes Magazine. Enjoy! http://watershapes.com/landscape/plants/hardscape/decks/tools-of-enchantment.html?utm_source=WaterShapes+20+January+2016&utm_campaign=1-20+newsletter&utm_medium=email
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Making a Bird and Fish Pond
Pictures tell the story of making this bird and fish pond and waterfall garden. It took a team of contractors, machines, a pond expert, and myself as the designer directing the placement of every stone and every plant. The concept was to build a natural looking pond. It was important…
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Enable Beauty
Muscari, dwarf iris, and dianthus budded foliage Found myself in waking consciousness muttering the words” enable beauty” one morning this week. The dream fragments that I woke with escape me now but do remember the words–a mantra of sorts. The mantra of one who gardens and designs landscapes professionally, I’m continually challenged to create gardens that delight, restore,and…
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The Theraputic Hour and a Memorable Visit to Central Park
Just in from gardening–I finally found time to do a little weeding, pruning dead stuff, and what ever. Just this last week I could actually distinguish live branches on the rose bushes and clematis. The heat wave dried up most of the early blooming daffodils and knocked out the dwarf tulips. So I found myself deadheading those. …
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Birdsong, Fascination, and Breathing
Birdsong entered my life today. Last week or so I found myself noticing it a bit here or there through closed windows. But today the warm weather invited me to open the slider while I worked. I appreciated the fresh air immediately, but it was the combination of birdsong and wind chimes softly responding to the breeze…
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Bluebirds in January!
Amazing! A flock of bluebirds visited my feeder a couple of days ago. In the three years I’ve lived in this location near a man-made wetland in the vicinity of a really large pond, they’ve visited on their way to somewhere about the same time. (Now its the magic number three I will have to…