Tag: Beauty
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When Fall Comes to New England
Inspiration comes too. Fortunately my life finds me immersed in New England’s autumn colors. Each morning the deepening color of the forest outside my window greets my first waking sight. Daily treks down multicolored leafy roads quiet my mind and call me to attention. This year I beheld the glory of “peak color” in Rangeley, Maine. (That’s right, Rangeley– it’s located…
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Using the Colorwheel to Create Beautiful Plant Combinations
When most gardeners think about plant combinations, they rarely refer to a color wheel. And they should. It’s a tool that can be vastly helpful. Maybe you saw one in kindergarten and remember the primary colors of red, blue, yellow. Secondary colors–the ones between. Those terms are useful but not important for the designer. A…
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Inspiring Late Summer Images from Tower Hill Botanical Garden
Let these images taken the third week of August inspire your late summer garden. Visit Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, MA. www.towerhillbg.org
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Bloom Garden a Gem at Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank
Seeking images for a lecture in development I journeyed to several Boston area public gardens. By far the best and most inspiring is the Adrian Bloom Garden at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. MHS can be found at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA . See http://www. masshort.org . Great planting design and awesome combinations. Go see it and apply its…
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Dragonfly Visits Favorite August Plant Combination
July’s carnival of Daylilies and Astilbes partying in my garden segues into a quieter reverie. August blooming Daylilies combine with Hosta, Phlox, Beebalm, Veronica, Joe Pye Weed, Astilbes, Hydrangea, Geranium, and more. My favorite combination just now is the tall lavendar scapes of Hosta ‘Krossa Regal’ dancing with the scapes of the yellow Hemerocallis ‘Autumn Minaret’ and the…
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Container ‘Make-Over’ Brightens Composition
Remember the dreary rain bedraggled annual flower composition from an earlier blog? In the photo below the nasturtiums saved the day adding cheerful orange and yellow and its pale green leaves to brighten the somber composition of rust coleus and purple petunias. In the revised arrangement above, I’ve tucked in the low growing yellow…
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APLD Member of the Month
Check out my project featured as APLD Member-of-the-Month. The classic fountain I designed above is part of the courtyard design of this estate project. Use the link: www.apld.com/apldmembers/featured.asp
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A Few Garden Moments
Yellow perennial Digitalis grandiflora and red Dianthus ‘Frosty Fire”? highlight the foliage of Hemerocallis and Enkianthus White Iris siberica, blue and yellow Hosta ‘Francis Williams’, yellow Hosta ‘Sum and Subtance’, pink Agilegia Designed as a journey of garden moments–sometimes at first all I see are the weeds and the plants that need dead heading. Then the…
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Iris Steal the Show this Sunday
Purple Iris germanica with pink Dianthus, pink Rhododendren, blue Nepata, chartreuse Alchemilla in the front side garden Clematis montana ‘Grandiflora’ Adds to Deck View Today’s images were taken from the north west and north east garden areas. I couldn’t get them in the order I wanted so imagine being enchanted by the flowering clematis montana ‘grandiflora’ as…
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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.