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Mulch Mountain
THERE’S A NEW TOPOGRAPHICAL FEATURE on my Springs, L.I., property that isn’t making me happy. It’s a hill made of mulch — 5 cubic yards of it. That’s a lot. It sits in my driveway, waiting to be deployed as … Continue reading
Posted in COTTAGE LIVING, GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LANDSCAPING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged mulch, Springs, suppress, weeds, wood chips
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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
Garden Guilt
MAYBE I READ TOO MANY GARDENING BOOKS, but I find I’m plagued by feelings of doing lots of things “wrong” in my initial efforts to turn my long-neglected, weedy, and lately muddy half-acre into a proper garden. OK, it’s only … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged bad garden habits, compost pile, hottuynia, soil pH, wisteria, wood chips
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The Good, the Bad, and the Mystifying
AT TWILIGHT YESTERDAY, I surveyed my 4/10 of an acre. Now that the bulk of the wisteria and weeds have been cleared away, I can see what I’ve got here, though I can’t identify all of it. There’s a lot … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged arborvitae, Belgian block, blue spruce, conifers, cottage, driveway, East Hampton, edging, garden challenges, garden rooms, gravel, hinoki cypress, junipers, lily of the valley, phlox, rhododendrons, shoestring budget, Springs, vine, wisteria, wood chips
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