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Memorial Day Weekend Favorites
Cerastium fills a corner Allium combines well with Hosta, Iris, and Astilbe Foliage Much to think about this Memorial Day Sunday. Celebrating achievements with graduation ceremonies, honoring the men and women who gave their lives for our way of life, and the stuff of gardens that sustain us through high points and low. Read more
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A Relaxed Human
Flowering Enkianthus ‘ Red Velvet’ frames the garden view Dwarf Iris in combination with Phlox subulata with Highbush Blueberry foliage behind Martha Beck reminds us that a relaxed human and a healthy human are one. (“The Easier Way to Diet” , The Oprah Magazine, June 2009). Further a healthy human stays trim effortlessly because the beastie brain doesn’t need… Read more
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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… Read more
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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. … Read more
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Fairy Hang-out? Emerging Rodgersias (now named Astilboides tabularis) or Rodger’s Flowers
Emerging Rodgersia Its the round leaf variety that I grow and cherish in my garden–it will have very large round leaves as the photo taken last summer shows. I love it tucked into a shady damp corner of my garden. The flowers are enchanting aren’t they? I’d… Read more
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Maples and Pulmonarias, Acers and Lungworts
The swamp maples red glow brighten our New England woodlands now–its Acer rubrum’s spring color reminiscent of autumn. But its the Acer japonicum ‘Folicifolium’ bud’s that hold my attention just now. Long a favorite tree I planted one in my garden last fall. I’d never seen it at this time of year and while I anticipate… Read more