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Tag Archives: wisteria
And Now to the Backyard…
On its way to pristine (those are hammock posts in the middle, by the way) I ALWAYS LOVED THE INITIAL PHASE OF RENOVATION: DEMOLITION. Smashing walls, pulling out old fixtures, ripping up nasty carpet is a whole lot of fun, … Continue reading
The Aegopodium Avenger
LAST YEAR IT WAS WISTERIA VINE that was the bane of my gardening existence. The stuff was so out of control it had taken down a shed and killed trees by strangulation. Hired landscapers hacked down much of it; I … Continue reading
A Year in Springs, and How My Garden Does Grow!
My front beds have gone from bare to ongepotchket (‘Slapped together without form, excessively decorated,’ according to one Yiddish dictionary) in a month. No, not true, but I see how easily it could happen…I can’t stop planting! EXACTLY ONE YEAR … Continue reading
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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Rancho La Puerta: Garden Close-Up
I’M HOME FROM RANCHO LA PUERTA and not too happy about that. The sun is shining here in East Hampton, N.Y., and things have greened up slightly. The daffodils are still in force; my scrawny magnolia is in what passes … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, TRAVEL
Tagged African daisies, agave, alkaline soil, aloe, artemisia, Baja California, California pepper tree, chapparal, cistus, Coyote hike, date palms, echeveria, eco-conscious, eco-equivalents, Enrique Ceballos, eucalyptus, euphorbia, French lavender, gardens, gazania, heavenly bamboo, ice plants, Kuchumaa, landscape, Landscape Garden Walk, LANDSCAPING, Mexico, Montezuma pine, nandina, pyrocantha, queen palms, Rancho La Puerta, rock rose, salvia, Sarah Livia Brightwood, star jasmine, Tecate, trumpet vines, Villas Luna, wisteria
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Rancho La Puerta: Ranch in Bloom
HERE AT RANCHO LA PUERTA in Tecate, Mexico — the only fitness resort I’ve ever been to, and the only one I ever care to go to — there’s no need to exercise that gratitude muscle I referred to in … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LANDSCAPING, TRAVEL
Tagged agave, alyssum, Baja, Baja California, blanket flower, calla lily, geraniums, ice plant, kalanchoe, landscape design, Mexico, Rancho La Puerta, rosemary, sage, Sarah Livia Brightwood, Tecate, wisteria
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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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