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The Season of Complimentary Colors

Fall is the season of complimentary colors starting with the fields of yellow goldenrod bumping up against the asters. Red maple leaves strewn across freshly mowed green lawns. The orange silhouettes...

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The Value of Green in the Flowering Border- Design

Some designers /gardeners are jamming lots of interesting textures into a flowering border but in many instances they are over doing it in my humble opinion! Plant breeders have gone overboard too;...

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The Hot Border- July

If you are starting to consider planting cactus in your garden my sympathies are with you. We are in a drought- the most serious one I, or others who have lived here much longer than my 16 years, can...

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Plant Swap with Friends

I recently added a bluestone patio that has caused the need for yet another border! Not wanting to go out and buy more plants I combed my garden and found a few crowded in plants, including some...

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Seasonal shots of Don’s garden

A friend asked me to make a separate area on the blog to just look at photos of my garden. So here it is. Click to view slideshow.

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Moon Garden Room – an update of images

The first time I had heard of planting a single-color garden was when I read a book about the White Garden at Sissinghurst. British novelist and poet Vita Sackville-West and her husband, diplomat and...

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July Garden

There is a point in midsummer where the garden suddenly changes. The spring greens are long gone and a unified summer green emerges. The once emerald lawn has now lost its luster. My friend Mermer...

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Last Bow

White and to my surprise, dusty pink to mauve flowers are dominating the garden now. I didn’t plan it this way, but some of the perennials like Phlox David have grown so huge they are threatening to...

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Adding Color to the Mid-Summer Border

Early flowering perennials begin in May and early June and flower intensely until the beginning of July when the late flowering perennials begin and continue into late fall. I find there is often a...

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Garden Edit

Three years ago I had the good fortune to be invited by a Dutch friend to visit her childhood home in Holland and tour some Dutch gardens. At the top of my list were the gardens of one the twentieth...

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