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Late Summer Garden Challenges
THIS IS NOT my East Hampton garden’s finest hour. I came back after two weeks in the Big City and a hurricane — no, a tropical storm, but still — to find it looking…well, shvach. That word comes to me … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged ajuga, boxwood, bugleweed, chelone, cranesbill 'Rozanne, cutting garden, deer, Deer-Out, East Hampton, Eastern redbud, epimedium, ferns, Korean boxwood, ligularia, miscanthus, perennials, pieris, pruning, rhododendrons, shade, turtlehead
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It’s Rhodie Time
THIS WEEK belongs to the rhododendrons. Surely they must be king of the flowers. Seen in and around East Hampton, N.Y.: I’m also pleased with my irises and perennial geraniums, below. The Deer-Out is holding them at bay. And here’s … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged boxwood, cranesbill, East Hampton, irises, perennial geraniums, rhododendrons, Springs
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Valencia’s River of Green
VALENCIA IS FULL OF MADDING CROWDS RIGHT NOW — the week-long Fallas festival,which takes place March 15-19 as it has for hundreds of years — involves lots of noise, color, and activity. Brass bands march through the streets, following parades … Continue reading
The Boxwood Rebellion
I wasn’t really planning something like this… IT HAPPENED SO FAST, my head is spinning. At 3 o’clock, I was at Spielberg’s Nursery in East Hampton, now that fall sales have begun, looking to see what they might have in … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged American boxwood, blackthorn, boxwood, buxus sempervirens, common boxwood, crabapple, Dean Riddle, deer, deer-resistant, East Hampton, field maple, hawthorn, hazel, highbush blueberry, honeysuckle, mixed country hedge, mixed hedge, mountain laurels, pagoda dogwood, shade-tolerant, spicebush, tapestry hedge, viburnum
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Please Please Me, Perennials
ON SUNDAY, I WENT TO HEAR THE IRREPRESSIBLE GARDEN DESIGNER/WRITER DEAN RIDDLE speak at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. I’ve been a fan of Dean’s since his ‘Dean’s Dirt’ column in Elle Decor some years ago. His 2002 book, Out in … Continue reading
Posted in CATSKILLS, GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged 'Blue Fortune' agastache, 'May Night' salvia, acquilegia, alchemilla mollis 'Auslese', boxwood, bronze sedge, CATSKILLS, cobblestone carpet, columbina, composted manure, Dean Riddle, digitalis, East Hampton, echinacea, firetail, foxgloves, garden designer, hyssop, indigo, ladies mantle, ligularia 'Osiris Cafe Noir', Madoo, perennials, Sagaponack, salvia, Spielberg's nursery, upstate New York, verbena bonariensis
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“It’s a Start”
SO I HAD THREE EVERGREENS planted in the front yard to screen the view of the road. Of course, they don’t screen the whole view of the road, just a bit of it. But as the guy from Whitmore’s, the … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged balance, boxwood, East Hampton, evergreens, freeze, holly, ilex crennata, nursery, planting, road, screen, symmetry, Thuja 'Green Giant', view, white pine, Whitmores
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