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Boxwoods to the Rescue
This one’s just for fun, above — it’s one of the more original examples of boxwood topiary I’ve seen in East Hampton IT’S PLANTING TIME AGAIN, and sale time, too, in the nurseries here on Long Island. Forty percent off … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged boxwoods, buxus sempervirens, deer-resistant, East Hampton, screening, shade-tolerant, Springs
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Lula’s Garden
Four Alberta spruces and a boxwood hedge lead the way from driveway to front door GOT ME A NEW CAMERA, but it’s not out of the box yet (I’m a little slow to adopt new technology, even when it’s sitting … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Alberta spruce, bleeding heart, boxwoods, brunnera, deer-resistant, ferns, Japanese maple, pieris, rhododendrons, shade garden, shade-tolerant, Springs
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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 Cheated with Annuals
MY NEW PLANTING BEDS – the ones at the front of my property, that started out last fall as piles of dead oak leaves, supplemented by topsoil and compost – are now almost as green as they are brown, with … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged Ageratum Hawaii Blue, Agway, annuals, bedding schemes, begonia Bada Boom, Bridgehampton, Celosia Fresh Lookk Gold, containers, deer-resistant, Dusty Miller Silverdust, East Hampton, groundcovers, ipomoea, Marigold Durango Yellow, Marigold Sweet Cream, perennials, shade-tolerant, sweet potato vine, Victorian, window boxes, Wittendales
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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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