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First, I love my neighbors - most of the time and as a group. And as a group you could hardly find a more environmentally concerned bunch - until it comes to planting trees in front of their homes. (So...
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The Year at Ellis Hollow by cdcramer make a calendar with zazzle.com Wow. This is a totally lovely calendar of Bloom Day images from Craig at Ellis Hollow. While I've always admired Craig's Bloom Day scans, I have to say...
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You East Coast people and your tiny-buildings-made-of-plant-materials fixation. First there's the New York Botanic Garden's holiday train show, with its ever-growing collection of New York landmarks made of plans, and now the US Botanic Garden announces that the White House...
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New York
Lacy's favorite, Orange Sovereign Hippeastrum. Amaryllis. Hippeastrum. Ama— Oh, who cares. Taxonomy is not the mystery I’m talking about. For many gardeners, the biggest mystery about these plants is how to keep them alive and blooming (as indoor plants) for...
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Michele's rant about landscapes in her home town prompted me to take a closer look at the photo I took recently of the house I lived in for my first 15 years. It sits in a 20-home development in Bon...
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The Smithsonian Institution's Archive of American Gardens has created their very own Flickr account and we're all invited to visit, tag and comment on these images of gardens from the 1920s and '30s - deemed the "golden era" for American...
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Virginia
There's a new biography of Molly Ivins - called Molly Ivins, a Rebel Life by Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith - and it's on my Christmas Wish List. Here in a review I found this reminder of her ability...
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Pansies this week in an alley in Saratoga Springs, NY. There are so many of them growing in such a narrow crack between the wall and pavement that I'm assuming they are self-seeded, possibly from the window box above.
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I'm here in New Jersey with my family for Thanksgiving. I'm grateful for the family part. New Jersey, less so. I've been unhappy with the state of yard-dom in the Garden State since I was five. If I were queen,...
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New Jersey
My favorite holiday-season light displays are the ones put on by our great public gardens. Longworth comes to mind, and Lewis Ginter in Virginia. And here in Maryland it feels like magic in the Brookside Gardens' Garden of Lights with...
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Virginia
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In response to my post about garden photographers bringing in some extra cash by selling their art as notecards or in some other artsy format, I heard from Jeff Friesen, who offers prints of his work for sale through his...
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I went to the farmer's market this weekend and bought everything that looked good. It's the last market of the season--they always hold out until the weekend before Thanksgiving so we can have one last great meal with the local...
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Personally, I couldn't care less whether there's a blue rose or not, but please don't try to pawn this off as one. Bleh!
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H. helix 'Ritterkreuz' is one of many slow-growing, well-behaved ivies that are good for containers. It is also the Ivy of the Year, 2010. Photo by Rachel Cobb, courtesy of www.ivy.org. While researching this topic recently, I was surprised to...
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Oregon
Remember last winter when there was much speculation over who would be the Obamas' kitchen gardener, and even a website appearing to be taking job aplications for the White House? (And it was taken SO seriously.) I joined in just...
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First, look who's posing in my back yard - Anneliese and Geoff Valdes of Cobrahead fame. (I hope you saw that power-wall shot of Anneliese with Ed Begley at DC's Green Fest!) They only had one day to see all...
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And managing editor Patty Craft lists 20 of them as top blogs in this month's issue. I was happy to see most of my own favorites among them but quite a few that are new to me. (So are these...
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Alabama
MISSY is the randomly-chosen winner of the Bulb book, and a deserving one at that. She has planted 400 bulbs this year, hopes to do 400 more next year, and has drained a swamp to make all this possible. You...
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After the many attempts I chronicled last week, I have now successfully grown a crop of yeast and made fantastic sourdough bread with it. The keys seemed to be allowing the water to sit out so the chlorine in it...
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Tennessee
One of the wisest things I've ever heard about gardening came from C.R. Lawn, the founder of the wonderful Fedco Seeds, who told me, "In the long run, your work is rewarded if you pay attention to details. In the...
