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Tag Archives: Deer-Out
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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Lilies of the Morning
THE FALL BULB CATALOGUES have started to arrive, and with them a certain annoyance, as in ‘Who wants to think about summer ending already?’ Still, they are seductive, and paging through them is a pleasant way to spend a July … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged alliums, bulbs, coleus, container, Deer-Out, deer-proof, grape hyacinths, hanging basket, John Scheepers, lysimachia, muscari, naturalizers, naturalizing, Outback Sunset, Saturn, Silberian squill, snowdrops, Spanish bluebells, Turk's cap lilies, wandering Jew
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Garden Soup
A few days ago in Springs WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES in the garden. Have you heard this about perennials? First year they sleep… second year they creep… third year they leap. Same view, one year ago this week … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Deer-Out, East Hampton, Envisioning the Garden, Le Bois des Moutiers, Normandy, perennials, Robert Mallet, Springs
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Re-connecting with my Garden
I WAS VERY CONTENT in my Prospect Heights pied-a-terre this past winter and felt I had made the right move in taking the Brooklyn apartment. But when I went out to Springs, which I did occasionally from November through March, … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged abelia 'Little Richard, cottage, Deer-Out, East Hampton, garden, hummingbird nest, ilex, rose of sharon, spring chores, spring clean-up, Springs
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