Tag: Flowers
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How to Deadhead Perennials.
Ask the Green Thumb Garden Tutorial Series: Latest Short video answering a common gardening questions posted by readers in the Boston/Metro-West area. How to Deadhead Perennials? frequently asked by gardeners–especially new ones! When you remove spent blossoms your garden instantly looks better. A bonus is that many plants will bloom a second time if deadheaded. Plants…
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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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Transformation: A Parking Lot becomes a Paradise
Let me tell you the story of a plot of land in Carlisle, MA. Mostly a parking lot, there was some open grass, miscellaneous woodland, a fence to prevent you from driving in, and trash barrel. It wasn’t a place you were likely to hang out. Nothing to draw you in-it was basically a…
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“Still Lifes”, Reflections in a North American November
Late November in North America, New England, this Sunday before Thanksgiving forms today’s perspective of this time of transition. My days and scheduling go from the active creative process of landscape design installations and studio work to only studio work and “office chores”. That’s the category of business chores that are put off when I’m…
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Boston Flower Show a Beauty in sights, sounds, and scent
The Boston Flower Show open through March 18th stimulates all your senses. I’ve so many great photos of beautiful garden rooms with lovely details and features. Difficult to choose one photo, but the enchantment in the exhibit designed as a children’s garden featured above won my vote this morning. As a landscape exhibit Judge representing the…
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Dianthus Joy
The large mass of pink dianthus greeted me recently. The first photo shows it as part of the garden as a whole–notice the way the green Japanese maple foliage and silvery green nepeta foliage masses balance the spread of the dianthus. Also, the bit of purple foliage of the heuchera echos the red side of the color wheel…
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Gloomy Weather Week, but not from my windows
It’s certainly been another rainy gloomy week in the Northeast. Reminds me of winters in Santa Cruz, CA. The only bright spots are the views from my windows. Out the back, a tapestry of different greens created by a variety woodland trees with a flowering cherry or two, a scene so beautiful I find myself in awe…
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Latest Discovery
The Bloodroot pictured above responded to yesterday’s sun by opening its’ flowers. Bloodroot or Sanguinaria canadensis occurs in our native hardwood forests and as you would expect from its’ name has a red colored root. For me it’s one of spring’s delights to rediscover each year on my garden journey. I treasure it as it’s fleeting–a spring efemeral…
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The Garden Comes Alive
I know it’s really spring because the flowers have started. These early blooming spring bulbs cheered me despite the clouds and threatening rain yesterday. Who knows what I’ll find tomorrow after today’s downpours.
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Pansies & Pussywillow Brighten the Early Spring Garden
Planting the large containers in this city garden/outdoor room I designed and installed last year brightens the early spring garden. Any day now the spring flowering bulbs will bloom in bursts of color. Soon after the earliest flowering shrubs will add to the chorus. The hellebore are blooming now. The blue, white, dark pink pansies highlighted with the pussywillow…