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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
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Anomalous April
View of the Hudson River and Catskills from Montgomery Place THIS APRIL IS A STRANGE ONE in the Hudson Valley. The forsythia is not quite finished, which is normal for the time of year, but the lilacs are already in … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HISTORIC PRESERVATION, HUDSON VALLEY
Tagged astilbe, bee balm, catmint, cimicifuga, dig, divide, Dutchess County, epimedium, forsythia, Hudson River, iris, kerria japonica, lambs ear, lilacs, LONG ISLAND, Loomis Creek Nursery, Montgomery Place, obedient plant, perennials, rudbeckia, spring, threadleaf coreopsis, viburnum
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