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A Normal Part of Life
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 6 At the Northeast Greenhouse Conference I heard Lloyd Traven, of Peace Tree Farm, speak about garden centers and the current importance of growing herbs...
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A Change of Plans
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 21 I got a phone call the other day from someone who had his sights on a hedge of leatherleaf Viburnum. He wanted to see those large, textured, shiny...
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Violets In The Mountains
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 22 Gina, a regular reader of this blog, sent me a lovely email awhile back, and the subject line was from the play Camino Real by Tennessee Williams: “The...
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An Ending Is Also A Beginning
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – November 27 Last week I got two packages of seeds in the mail. This end-of-the-current-season/early-next-season-order was spurred by the arrival of the Plant World...
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What We Have Now
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – December 4 I returned home from the garden center in time to see the last rays of the setting sun hitting the red twig dogwood. It was just past 4 PM, but there...
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Bearing Fruit
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – December 28 On Christmas day I picked one of the Meyer lemons (Citrus × meyeri) off of the tree in the kitchen and made a Meyer lemon risotto for dinner. The Meyer...
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A Path With Heart
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – February 24 At this time of year gardeners are either applauding spring or looking forward to the growing season…they’re already rejoicing or anticipating that...
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Some Days You Just Need Tulips
Report From An Opinionated Gardener – May 6 Put this on your calendar for September of 2011: Plant a patch of tulips. Yes, I know what many of you are thinking. “Tulips only bloom well for one year and...
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Planting and Planning
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – September 30 Today was one of those wonderful fall days: warm but not humid, with all the landscape refreshed from yesterday’s rain. We savor such weather at this time of...
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Old Dogs/New Tricks
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – March 12 When we pay attention we might see that out of the blue the same information often concentrates and threads repeatedly through our lives. Have you noticed that?...
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