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Garden Inspiration: Late-Season Lushness in Amagansett
HERE, TO MANY, IS WHAT THE HAMPTONS is really about — not the ocean beaches but the native oak woods and the gardening that is possible within them, with the help of a sturdy deer fence. This green and lovely … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Amagansett, Bayberry Nursery, carex, carex Morrowii 'Ice Dance', cedar-shingled, clerodendron tichotomum fargesii, cottage, deer fence, deer fencing, ferns, hakonechloa, hostas, hydrangea, Japanese maple, ligularia, liriope, natural swimming pool, Paula Diamond, stockade fence
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Decisions, Decisions
THESE DAYS, I’M FACED WITH CHOICES I couldn’t have predicted a few months back, when I lived in a brownstone in Brooklyn. They’re fun choices, not matters of life and death. Still, they are perplexing. For example: Fencing: how high? … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND, OLD-HOUSE MAKEOVERS
Tagged blue Atlas cedar, cedar, cobblestones, cottage, deer fencing, driveway, East Hampton, edging, fence, fencing, fireplace, gravel, Malm, parking court, pea gravel, Springs, steel, tree removal, white oak, Zircon
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Good Fences Make Good Gardens
GOOD FENCES may or may not make good neighbors, but good deer fences definitely make good gardens. A friend here just told me how her husband, fired up with enthusiasm the very first day they moved to a wooded … Continue reading
Cottage Garden, Despite the Deer
IT’S WORKING. After 7 years, the perennial beds at my upstate New York place, where my wasband (thanks to Marggy Kerr for that word) lives and gardens, are finally filled in enough to suppress weeds. Two months without any weeding, … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HUDSON VALLEY
Tagged cottage garden, daylilies, deer, deer fencing, deer-resistant, hostas, hydrangeas, irises, milorganite, perennials, poppies, rudbeckia, weeds
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