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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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Leap of Gardening Faith: Pruning Rhododendrons
GARDENING REQUIRES many leaps of faith, especially when you’re learning on the fly as I am (but then again, I suspect that’s what most gardeners do throughout their lives). This morning I took a giant leap, with Dong’s help. He … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged chain saw, cottage, East Hampton, prune, pruning, radical, Rejuvenation, rhodies, rhododendrons, rhodos, Springs
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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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East Hampton’s Garden Guru
TODAY I WANT TO CALL YOUR ATTENTION to the multi-talented Dianne Benson, a former fashion designer and retailer (I still have a fab dress from the ’80s with her label that I can’t bring myself to let go of). She … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Dianne B., Dianne B. Best, Dianne Benson, Dirt, East Hampton, Hamptons Cottages & Gardens, Niwaki, pruning, topiary
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