SEARCH casaCARA
CATEGORIES
-
Recent Posts
- Dream of Oaxaca
- Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
- First Timer in Mexico City
- These Walls Talk: Story of an 1830s Brooklyn House
- Appreciating October: Old Houses & Fall Color
- Art-Making for All in Amagansett
- Perennials on Parade + Shopping for an Instant Cottage Garden
- Hey, Last-Minute Summer Vacation Planners! Rent My Glorified Boho Hamptons Beach Bungalow
- BOOK REVIEW: 111 Places in Brooklyn That You Must Not Miss
- Agrigento’s Valley of the Temples, with a Pit Stop in Noto
Top Posts (Last 48 Hours)
EXPLORE by clicking on any of the tags below
- 19th century
- Amagansett
- annuals
- antiques
- architecture
- Art Deco
- Atlantic Avenue
- barn
- beach cottage
- beach house
- Benjamin Moore
- Boerum Hill
- boxwoods
- Bridgehampton
- BROOKLYN
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden
- Brooklyn Heights
- brownstone
- Brownstoner
- brownstones
- bungalow
- Carroll Gardens
- CATSKILLS
- cedar-shingled
- cedar shingles
- Clinton Hill
- Cobble Hill
- Colonial
- Columbia County
- compost
- cottage
- cottage garden
- cottages
- daffodils
- deck
- decorating
- deer
- deer-resistant
- deer fence
- driveway
- East End
- East Hampton
- farmhouse
- ferns
- Fishtown
- for rent
- for sale
- Fort Greene
- front porch
- furniture
- garden
- Gardiner's Bay
- Gowanus
- Greek Revival
- Greenport
- Hamptons
- Hamptons Cottages & Gardens
- house for sale
- Hudson River
- HUDSON VALLEY
- Italianate
- Jackson Pollock
- Kensington
- LONG ISLAND
- Maidstone beach
- Maidstone Park
- Maui
- Mexico
- mid-century modern
- Montauk
- Northern Liberties
- North Fork
- Open Days
- outdoor shower
- Park Slope
- perennials
- PHILADELPHIA
- pied a terre
- Prospect Heights
- Queen Village
- REAL ESTATE
- Red Hook
- renovation
- rental
- rhododendrons
- row house
- row houses
- rustic
- Sag Harbor
- Shelter Island
- Southampton
- South Fork
- Springs
- townhouse
- Victorian
- vintage
- Williamsburg
- window boxes
- wisteria
- yard sales
Recent Comments
- cara on Why I Love Philadelphia, Part 1
- Bonny Hohenberger on Why I Love Philadelphia, Part 1
- cara on Dream of Oaxaca
- Rosemary Brooks on Dream of Oaxaca
- coppermaven on Dream of Oaxaca
- cara on Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
- cara on Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
- Frederick Nunley on Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
- JG on Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
- coppermaven on Brooklyn Quarantine Diary
ARCHIVES
Blog Stats
- 1,138,591 views
Tag Archives: irises
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
4 Comments
Happy June
NOW THERE’S YOUR PROPER JUNE BORDER, above. A little ahead of time, as is everything in this accelerated spring. Peonies; irises; columbine; foxgloves and phlox on their way. In front of a very proper old house, below, on Long Island’s … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LONG ISLAND, NORTH FORK
Tagged annuals, beds, border, borders, catmint, columbine, cottage garden, dianthus, farmstands, foxgloves, greenhouses, hanging baskets, irises, June, ladies mantel, lambs ear, LONG ISLAND, North Fork, peonies, phlox, vegetable starters, wineries, yarrow
1 Comment
Pull, Plant, Move, Weed, Shear, Lop…it’s May
SO TODAY I’M OUT IN THE GARDEN, following a nice morning rain, yanking out white-flowering, foot-tall garlic mustard before it seeds, and I uncover this fellow, above, with the pretty yellow markings. I’m not much for wildlife photography — deer … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged chelone, Costco, crabgrass, deer-proof, East Hampton, ferns, garlic mustard, grasses, groundcover, ilex, irises, Japanese silver ferns, juniper, kerria japonica, lawn, Maidstone beach, Maidstone Park, miscanthus, mulch, nandina, peonies, rhamnus frangula, rose of sharon, Springs, threadleaf coreopsis, turfgrass, viburnum, weeds, weigela, White Flower Farm, wisteria
5 Comments
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
4 Comments
My Rented Garden: Nil to Abundance in 2 Seasons
WELL, THAT WASN’T SO BAD, WAS IT? Unless we get some late snowstorms (which have been known to happen), spring is just weeks away. My thoughts are turning to my backyard in Boerum Hill, going into its third season. I’m … Continue reading
Posted in BROOKLYN, GARDENS & GARDENING
Tagged asters, backyard, Boerum Hill, Borough Hall, buttercups, catmint, chain-link fence, Cobble Hill, containers, euonymous, garden, Greenmarket, hostas, irises, juniper, lady's mantle, perennials, raised-bed kits, renter, staking, stone wall, tomato plants, wood deck
11 Comments
