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Tag Archives: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn: Isn’t it Romantic?
SPECIFICALLY, IT’S THE Brooklyn Botanic Garden I’m talking about, not the whole borough in all its varied and often-gritty aspects. I was at the BBG last night with my daughter for ‘August Garden Cocktail Night,’ a members-only event. It rained … Continue reading
The Fall Planting Window is Open
IT’S COOL, IT’S WET, IT’S FALL, as of this morning at 5:05AM — and it’s prime time for planting and moving things around. Now’s our big chance to improve on the design of beds and borders, without stressing plants in … Continue reading
Wet Week in Brooklyn
MAY SHOWERS, May flowers… Clematis most fabulous Anyone know what that pink explosion is, above? Stoop sitting Towering alliums The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where I’ve been twice this week The Rose Arc Pool Bluebell Wood A venerable paper birch Contemplating … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, GARDENS & GARDENING, PHOTOGRAPHY
Tagged alliums, azalea, Bluebell Wood, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, clematis, paper birch, Prospect Heights, Rose Arc Pool
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Second Fall in the Country
IT’S MY SECOND AUTUMN IN EAST HAMPTON, and life is good. I’ve planted a few more shrubs, done a bit of fall clean-up. Things are shaping up, landscape-wise, though I’ve been a little lax on the photos. How many times … Continue reading
ISO Brooklyn Pied-a-Terre
EMBRACE CHANGE, DON’T BATTLE IT. A fortune cookie said it, so it must be good advice. I like that action verb “embrace.” Not “welcome” change, receptively — no, no, go out and give it a big hug. Reach for it, … Continue reading
Posted in MISCELLANEOUS
Tagged BROOKLYN, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Museum, East Hampton, Hamptons, pied a terre, Prospect Heights, Prospect Park, Springs
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Made in the Shade: Tips from the Experts
Margaret Roach at last weekend’s shade gardening workshop, above LAST WEEKEND, along with a few dozen other garden nerds, I attended a half-day shade gardening workshop in Columbia County, and took 8 pages of notes. We started at Margaret Roach’s … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, HUDSON VALLEY, LONG ISLAND
Tagged ajuga, begonias, Bob Hyland, borders, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, cardboard, cimicifuga, citronelle, Columbia County, deep shade, dividing perennials, dolls eyes aceta, dropout memoir, early bulbs, epimedium, full sun, hakonechloa, hellebores, heuchera, hostas, Jeffersonia, Loomis Creek, Margaret Roach, nursery, part shade, petasites, primulas trilliums, rosin paper, shade gardening, shade gardens, smother weeds, Spanish bluebells, tips, woodland plants
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The Waiting Game
Soon: Backyard Community Garden, Red Hook, Brooklyn SNOW IS STILL BLANKETING THE GROUND — another few inches yesterday — but it’s getting nearer the day we can start gardening in earnest. I intended to do a whole planning thing with … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, HUDSON VALLEY, LONG ISLAND
Tagged A Way to Garden, astilbes, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, daffodils, February, ferns, garden chores, garden design, HUDSON VALLEY, Josephine Nuese, Loomis Creek, March, Margaret Roach, mulch, Nigel Rollings, nursery, Open Days, pruning, seed starting, Sydney Eddison, winter protection, wood ash
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