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31.01.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

2012 Urban Tree of the Year

2012 + Landscape Trees

Accolade is one of many elms on Arthur Lee Jacobsen’s page. Ever since the demise of the American Elm tree due to the deadly combination of Dutch Elm disease and the beetle that spread it, arborists, landscapers, and gardeners alike have looked for and hoped that a replacement might be found. Once upon a time…

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29.08.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Hard Decisions

Garden shrubs

My garden, like myself, is no longer young and freshly planted. We have been here awhile, and the signs of maturity are equal parts dignified and disconcerting. Once this property was almost a blank space with few trees and mown grass, now it holds almost thirty years worth of plantings, some grown quite large. Large…

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27.06.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Today People Are Looking For…

garden chores + Mugo pines

The candle growth on a pine.   Today people are looking for information on how to prune a mugo pine. That is the Google interpretation of what people want from this garden journal. It is just a little too late to be asking that question. But it is just the right time to prune other…

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18.05.11 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

My Daffodils Photo Collage

bulbs

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ // ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ © 2011 written for Ilona’s Garden Journal. An excellent blog.

photo by Ulf Eliasson

26.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

True Lilies

About Flowers + bulbs + Plants

Glorious Lilies   I mentioned that lilies do well for me. They do, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t had some learning experiences along the way. For one thing, I have a country garden with all the attendant critters that like to munch on lily bulbs. Also, as a genus lilies are not uniform in…

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24.03.11 | Ilona Erwin | 5 Comments

The Early Flowers

bulbs

The first flowers have finally made their appearance, and even gone by a bit quickly since the fickle Ohio weather was very warm for a few brief days. The snowdrops are quite sturdy and longest lasting of the early bloom. The tiny snow crocus are quite delicate, more so than their garden crocus siblings. So…

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24.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Tree Notes

Garden blogs + Landscape Trees

I think you ought to visit Tree Notes blog, and perhaps put it in your bookmarks. Yes, that would be a good thing to do. Genevieve majors in trees, and writes posts full of delicious notes on all sorts of trees along with the usual cultivation information. I always find myself engaged in her articles….

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03.10.10 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

I Enjoy Squirrels From Afar

autumn + bulbs

John and Liza have the cutest photos of squirrels at their blog. Check them out. I don’t know if it is the lack of trees in our county or my barnyard cats, but squirrels don’t thrive here. When I lived in the city I thought everyone had squirrels in abundance…just like I had always experienced….

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24.06.10 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

You’ll Rue The Day…

Garden Perennial Plants + herbs + Plants

Rue with no view of the flagstone path Ever heard that saying? It might become all too meaningful if you are working on a hot summer day, especially while trimming back the “Herb of Grace” Ruta graveolens, AKA “Rue”. The sap from cut or bruised plants can be very irritating. Some people actually blister from…

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Crop rotation illustration

15.04.10 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Springtime Garden Tips

garden chores + gardening tips + Landscape Trees + Vegetable garden

Planting New Trees and Shrubs Earlier in the season my son-in-law asked me about planting a new arborvitae. He lives in Georgia, and I had seen his homesite for a screen he wanted in his back yard during last year’s visit. Arborvitae was a fine choice for what he wanted and where the plant would…

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