driveby gardens; more on the disappearing lawn
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I got a a very late start on the self-guided Lawn-to-Garden tour Saturday,
thirty gardens from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., just because Friday was an unusually
od...
Gardens in the mist
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, yesterday.
Between the irises, wisteria and Spanish bluebells, it smelled pretty good.
Despite the low cloud and precipita...
The next three // elspeth
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Summer has snuck up on me. It happens every year, but this time it seemed
to come especially fast. I got my tomato seedlings and dahlia tubers in the
groun...
At A Glance: Enjoying The Spring Season
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strawberries and phlox espaliered apples spring pots dogwoods and azaleas
spring basket tulips spruces and hellebores bok choy late tulip new hosta
leaves
growing hellebores and more, with barry glick
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I’M OFTEN ASKED by frustrated gardeners how I managed to get my big old
hellebore plants to grow so lustily—as if they are finicky, or difficult.
To me ...
HozeLock’s Flexi Spray & the X-Hose
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Between the X-Hose and the Flexi Sprayer, hand watering might just have
moved into the world of modern day convenience. If you have a big garden
like I do...
Trekker Trailers Tiny House
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The post Trekker Trailers Tiny House appeared first on Tiny House Blog.
Trekker Trailers in central Florida has been building vintage and retro
style tea...
If You Like Pina Coladas
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Clearly I left both my wits and my camera at home yesterday.
I knew I was going to dinner where both the food and friends would be
pretty.
And delicious....
This 'n That
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FIRST of all- Hang on to your hats everyone--- that's right, ELLA IS
COMING TO SEE GRANDMA AND GRANDPA - and Uncle Mike! I wanted to get that
said immedi...
New horizons
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I’ve thought about how to start this post for days now. Staring up at my
hotel room ceiling each night, sorting through the mountain of emotions,
ideas, ...
Endulging at Trade Secrets
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Whose that with Martha Stewart in the middle of this image? Why, no other
than Kevin Sharkey. I covet my *Podophyllum pleianthum* as much as Martha
do...
Last Of The Container Tulips And A New Planting
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As I may have mentioned, starting last week and for the remainder of May I
have to be out-of-town Monday through Friday. This is what we used to call
a maj...
Girona Temps de Flors 2013
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Girona rep la primavera florida, perfumada i acolorida amb el Festival
Girona Temps de Flors, l'esdeveniment més conegut internacionalment de la
ciutat. Aq...
Garden tour by GObike Buffalo
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Looking for a great way to see gardens? Sign up for the National Garden
Festival's City Garden Tour by Bicycle! Coordinated by the people that know
bike t...
Let the Planting Begin!
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It seems spring cannot make up it's mind this year--the weather has been a
roller coaster of temperatures. Mother's Day weekend included plenty of
wind a...
Green at last
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It’s still cold at nights, but It must be spring: everybody’s either
nesting: or unfurling: These are the emerging leaves of glaucidium
palmatum, the Japa...
How Words are Like Ribbons to Me
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Have you ever had your attention repeatedly captured by a single word? It
happens to me over the course of a few days, weeks, or even months. One
keeps pop...
One Flower's Point of View
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In light of yesterday's post, this strip from *The Other Coast* by Adrian
Raeside presents an interesting point of view...
(Click to enlarge)
Easy Weeknight Pantry Meals
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I was talking to my girlfriends last night at Supper Club about the process
of planning for and preparing a decent dinner meal. There are seven of us
and...
packing for london, paris and provence
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let me just say right here that i don't even know where to begin with this
post.
i try to talk about things i know a little about but since i've never b...
Garden Bloggers Bloom Day - May 2013
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[image: GBBD_May_2013]
We're already half-way through May, can you believe it! This spring has
been one of the oddest I've experienced since moving here...a...
Lawns Of Purple and Gold
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From GENE LOGSDON Rain and good old-fashioned laziness kept us from mowing
the lawn until the first week of May this spring. By then the yard was so
beauti...
floral corsages with anthropologie
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I had the honor of hosting a DIY Mother's Day workshop at Anthropologie in
Montclair, New Jersey last Thursday evening! In honor of Mother's Day, we ...
Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day – May 2013
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No complaints about the very springy spring we’ve been enjoying here in
southeastern Pennsylvania. For the most part, the temperatures and rainfall
have be...
Giant Tree Echium.
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Last week was an absolute fury of work at the greenhouse. I’m happy to see
Mother’s Day come and go. So many hanging baskets; I’ve got marigold
vision… In ...
Woody Plants for Shade Part 8
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My garden reaches one of its peaks when the doublefile viburnum, V.
plicatum var. tomentosum, is blooming. It has such a beautiful habit and
way of holdin...
Query for wildflower growers/experts
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What’s with the pink flowering native primroses? Spotted, this morning,
alongside deep cerise pink drumstick primulas, I initially wondered if I
was seeing...
apple blossom
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apple blossom i think you are my favourite flower, which is not something i
would say lightly
you really are perfection, all delicate petals and rosy b...
There will come a time
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...promise made to a crab apple tree.
Was it you, went in search of
A pillow for my head?
The colt and lionness must meet each other
Must lie down one t...
Sprouts of Valour: Gog and Magog
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Spring brings to this garden blogger an annual Spate of Spam from purveyors
hoping to get a mention of their book recommendations and their Top-Ten
Garde...
My Latest Experiment
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I have a long history of things not turning out like I'd planned.
I remember one incident where I'd purchased a sewing pattern and several
yards of a love...
Potatoes don’t smile
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When it came right down to it my will to grow potatoes wavered. It did. It
became actually wobbly and prone to distraction. But I had purchased those
organ...
Lisa's Adventures with Irit Dulman and Vilte
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Hello,
This time it is Lisa writing to you.
In January, I went to my first out of town workshop all by myself. I
loaded my jeep with all my felting and ...
Echium Forest
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I have never attempted to grow Echiums here in my own garden, assuming
they would be doomed to failure..I never see them in Napa, and they have
always see...
Report from the trial beds: Delosperma overwintering
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Last summer, I took an unused section of the nursery and turned it into
what we're calling the trial beds. The idea is to set out big sections of
our colle...
A Visit to Quarryhill Botanical Garden
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You drive by miles of grape groves, tidy lines on the hillsides, before
getting to this oasis of wild nature. Yet, the place is also unnatural, as
all of t...
The Last Frost of Spring
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When I looked out my window last Saturday morning, the freshly blooming
spring was coated with a layer of glistening frost.
Pieris Japonica - an late ...
Cape Point Vineyard market
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Feel like a glass of wine...or two, as well as a yummy selection of eats on
a Thursday evening?
Cape Point Vineyard Market in Noordhoek - We visited a ...
Pretty Point Lobos
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Point Lobos State Natural Reserve was one of our first stops when we hit up
the Monterey Bay area during our trip back to California. We normally have
Max ...
The Illinois Orchid Society Show
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[image: White and pink striped orchid] Phalaenopsis Taida King's Caroline
It's said there are more species of orchid than any other plant on Earth,
with t...
Noel Kingsbury: The Ghost in the Machine
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*Thoughts on Noel Kingsbury's contribution and a review of his latest book
with Piet Oudolf*
*
*
Noel Kingsbury is the great chronicler of contempor...
On life in the milk lane
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My baby with the one and only bottle baby on the farm, March 2010 Many,
many people find my blog because we all share an interest in gardening.
And garden...
The Farm Wife Tour of Disney World
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Walt Disney World, for a kid, is the coolest place in the world, for an
adult, it’s worth every penny to see the joy and excitement on your kids
faces when...
Young Choe is a genius
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These are either native *kusamona* or at least mostly native. She's doing a
presentation at the Lahr Symposium next Saturday. Register on the Arboret...
The New Sprout Growing On My Balcony
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Hi guys, long time no blog! While I was pregnant, I just had too much going
on to find time to garden, so I put my balcony on hold for awhile. But now
that...
On a Jet Plane
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I’m spending a lot of time on planes, in airports, and on the road these
days, traveling around to give lectures to promote the book. You can find
out wher...
Coming to a Town Near You
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I’m packing my bags and heading out on the lecture circuit and bringing my
little Houseplant & Einstein Show to a lecture hall close to you. Just so
we don...
View from Federal Twist has moved
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View from Federal Twist has moved from Blogger to WordPress. To reach the
new View from Federal Twist, click on the following link:
*www.federaltwist.com*
...
12-25-2012 7_41_23 PM
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Today on Christmas, I setup a new bench and part of my greenhouse
irrigation system. The one on the left, the new one, will hold seedlings
requiring mistin...
Lets Talk Urban Goats
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There are alot of opinions about raising goats in an Urban Environment. I
can only speak truthfully and honestly about my experiences. First of all,
goats...
July 27th 2012
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This week has seen a lot of sunshine and, mercifully, rain fall on the
farm. We've needed the moisture for weeks now as the temperatures have
regularly ru...
Blogging Break
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I'm sad to say that I will be taking a blogging break for several months.
We are all fine and I will be back sometime in the near future.
The New Coop
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So here's a project that's taken up far more of our spring time than I
would have imagined. It's our spankin' new chicken coop. As you can see,
it's an...
Garden Fairy Rescue Brigade Helps Heather
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In a time of crisis, Garden Fairies call on the “Garden Fairies Rescue
Brigade”. We’re sort of like Ghost Busters minus the ghost but with a lot
Fairy Dust...
Green and Cheap Plant Starters
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I have been experimenting with making seed starters and planters using
materials I would otherwise throw out. I wanted it to be something that
would be dis...
By: Rambles with Reese
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This post is really interesting. I don't know much about plants, but I have
heard about this....it's really kind of cool. Thanks for your comps on my
blog!...
Thursday March 10 2011
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*Planted*:
*Bed 1*: Snow peas x 2 punnets; bok choy x 4; Chinese cabbage x 4; golden
oregano. Applied compost & dolomite to the peas. Watered all seedlin...
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