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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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I Dig
I ALWAYS THOUGHT B&B stood for bed and breakfast. Now I know it means balled and burlapped. Plants sold in plastic containers are a cinch to plant – you dig a hole and pop them in. Bigger trees and shrubs … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged acid soil, American holly, balled and burlapped, Bridgehampton, clethera, containers, deer-resistant, Hamptons, kerria japonica, lopper, mahonia, Marder's, mixed hedge, mixed hedgerow, mountain laurels, nursery, osmanthus, Pee Gee hydrangea, sarcococca, shade-tolerant, skimmia, wisteria
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