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Behold the Lilies
CONSIDER THE LILIES of the field, and let’s not forget the hydrangeas, ladies’ mantel, astilbe, verbena and other things… July here at Green Half-Acre is turning out OK after all. Lilies — whether fancy ones from a catalogue, yard sale … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND, MISCELLANEOUS
Tagged daylilies, hydrangeas, ladies mantle, lilies, rhododendrons, Turk's cap lilies, verbena bonariensis
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Please Please Me, Perennials
ON SUNDAY, I WENT TO HEAR THE IRREPRESSIBLE GARDEN DESIGNER/WRITER DEAN RIDDLE speak at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. I’ve been a fan of Dean’s since his ‘Dean’s Dirt’ column in Elle Decor some years ago. His 2002 book, Out in … Continue reading
Posted in CATSKILLS, GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged 'Blue Fortune' agastache, 'May Night' salvia, acquilegia, alchemilla mollis 'Auslese', boxwood, bronze sedge, CATSKILLS, cobblestone carpet, columbina, composted manure, Dean Riddle, digitalis, East Hampton, echinacea, firetail, foxgloves, garden designer, hyssop, indigo, ladies mantle, ligularia 'Osiris Cafe Noir', Madoo, perennials, Sagaponack, salvia, Spielberg's nursery, upstate New York, verbena bonariensis
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GARDEN VOYEUR: Meadow with a View
FIVE STORIES above Pacific Street, there’s a colorful meadow designed by Cynthia Gillis for the rooftop of the Boerum Hill townhouse she shares with her husband, architect John Gillis. “A roof deck is a kind of meadow,” she says, “because … Continue reading
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Tagged achillea 'Paprika', Boerum Hill, contemplation bench, coreopsis 'Moonbeam", Cynthia Gillis, downtown Brooklyn, drip irrigation, drought-tolerant, feather reed grass, garden design, Japanese black pine, Karl Foerster, landscape design, meadow, polymer crystals, roof deck, roof garden, rooftop garden, salvia, townhouse, verbena bonariensis
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