Making an all white garden used to be quite a popular undertaking. Although the idea probably started, in modern gardening times anyway, with Gertrude Jekyll in her book, Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, it was Vita Sackville-West who created the most famous white garden at Sissinghurst Castle. This garden was “designed to be at […]
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Dawes: Landscaping Help
Here is another set of pictures from Dawes Arboretum. The hillside arbor includes wooden steps to climb up and down a fairly steep hillside incline- it is underplanted with shade loving plants, many hostas and some ephemerals like dicentras. The upper right is a strong pink purple lilac against the dogwoods display behind. this hillside […]
Just A Note-05-09
It had rained and then the sun came out. Joanne had noted my garden is mainly shrubs and flowers, which it is, and I wrote back that I was only just getting back into vegetable gardening the past few years after a decade hiatus of fervent food gardening. I still have only a third of […]
Fickle Weather
Today couldn’t make up it’s mind whether it wanted to be a sunny day or a stormy one. I got ready to go out and garden, after getting home from an appointment, took time to talk over somethings with one of my kids… and boom! cold wind and rain moved in. It has been hail […]
Apricots in April
Here are a few of the photos I took this past week of what is blooming in my yard. I chose those with apricot and orange to orange red colorations to show you how pretty some things could be together. One thing blooming which is not included, but could be, is the Hyacinth “Gypsy Queen”. […]
Imagination In the Garden
A garden is a place for imagination. Joanne, remember that huge forsythia bush in your Arcadia backyard when we were children? that was a favorite imagination place for me. And the old, ravine side, ruined grotto by Flora Holly’s house? I came across a video that made me think of the creation of such places […]
