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Fall Plant Shopping
HAVING BOTH DEER AND SHADE to contend with is kind of like being a vegan. It’s doable, but your choices are awfully limited. I wanted to do some planting this first fall on my woodsy property in Springs, but I … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, HAMPTONS, LONG ISLAND
Tagged alder buckthorn, deer, deer fence, Deer-Resistant Landscape, East Hampton, Fine Line, lilacs, online nurseries, ornamental grasses, panicum virgatum, planting, Prairie Fire, rejuvenation pruning, rhamnus frangula, Round Up, shade, Springs, Wayside Gardens, White Flower Farm, wisteria, woods
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Approved! The Latest on Springs
BACK IN DECEMBER, I started this blog with a post about my search for the ‘perfect’ beach (or country) cottage, and took you along on some of my house-hunting forays to the North Fork and Hudson Valley. In January, I … Continue reading
Posted in GARDENS & GARDENING, LONG ISLAND
Tagged arborist, boiler inspection, burning bush, cedar-shingled, contract, cottage, deer, East Hampton, ferns, forsythia, interest rate, juniper, LONG ISLAND, mortgage, plumber, real estate broker, rhododendrons, rose of sharon, South Fork, specimen conifers, Springs, town land, woods
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