Tag: New England Spring
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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…
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Muted Tones of Early Spring Woodland
Driving around and thru local towns, I notice the brown and grey theme of the local woodlands–nothing wrong with it, but I’m winter weary. It’s always this way in early spring here in New England–uninspiring native landscape and my own cultivated land a mess. But I find if I look to the places with water…
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Favorite Flower Show Image
I love this image and this display taken at the Boston Flower Show, March 18, the morning I managed to attend. It shows color, form, texture from plants, sculpture, and field-stone steppers. I love the use of sculpture in this exhibit as a whole. I wish more people would go the extra step and…
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Boston Flower Show
Thoroughly enjoyed my morning at the Boston Flower Show, so much lovely color to our winter starved eyes. Okay, I’m talking color and tons of flowers, yet the image I chose displays huge stones and plantings to create a wonderful garden room. Note the suggested walls, windows, and floor. And this landscape’s got a little of everything– a deciduous…
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I’m looking forward to Spring
copyright 2010 Maria von Brincken The 60 degree weather yesterday was wonderful. In many years, a January or February thaw would be a great time to cut back large ornamental grasses. Not this year! The garden’s still buried under now snow mounds high above my head. This photo of the early blooming clematis ‘grandiflora’ helps me remember…
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A Lovely June Day
Spring Anemone Steals the Show Plant Anemone canadensis when you want to carpet a large area. Too vigorous for a small spot in a border. Here it works to echo the shape of the long narrow walk as it directs your attention to the garden below with its beckoning color and texture. Meanwhile, I’m challenged to…
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Morning Greetings
Birdsong, streaming sunlight, happy plants greet me most mornings. For most of May, the white climbing clematis vine (is it alba or grandiflora?) treats me to its lovely floral display. With or without flowers, the vines connect my deck to my garden and the woodland view beyond. Below deck, it’s wonderful as well. I enjoy it from my office and the lower patio.…
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Along the Garden Path
Always something to delight along the path. Texture, shapes, flowers, colors all reward the garden journey.
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Dance of Light and Shadow
Drawn by color or form, I find myself noticing the way the sunlight plays across the landscape. It shifts and highlights or casts shadows. It flirts with our attention. Mesmerizing, sometimes the light dance holds me present for minutes that seem a much longer time. Pretty good considering how many thoughts distract us from our ‘now’ constantly. As a…