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Continue ReadingLook for plants with white blooms, silver foliage; with variegated foliage of white and green ,they light up almost any night garden and don’t forget scent and sound (a gentle fountain murmur): Shrubs: Dogwood: Cornus kousa ‘Samaritan’ Silver foliage: Salix canadida pale and back lit by moonlight it...
Continue ReadingI was on Fresh Morning this weekend. Great fun with Mary Ito. I mentioned a couple of plants I think people should look at for indoors possibilities: Papyrus ‘Baby Tut’ was a marvelous annual this year. If you can rescue it, bring it indoors in a...
Continue ReadingThis edition of the quarterly is in a new format. Our webmistress is on holidays so here it is as a blog: [caption id="attachment_2395" align="alignleft" width="480"] The Garden July 2015[/caption] The garden has been giving a huge amount of pleasure all year. But this summer it has...
Continue ReadingThis morning I was on Niki Jabbour's radio show this a.m. Tremendous energy and information. Now to go out and admire the garden and see the things about to unfurl: Cornus controversa 'Variegata' and the fabulous Stewartia pseudocamillia which is going to be...
Continue ReadingI'LL BE ON CBB's Fresh Air Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m. with Karen Gorden. Try and have a listen. If you missed the story in Gardenista: here's the link Wow here's a link to a story I wrote on the garden for GARDENISTEA http://www.gardenista.com/posts/garden-visit-at-home-with-canadas-favorite-garden-writer?utm_source=Remodelista%2FGardenista+Subscriber+List&utm_campaign=96faf6d7a9-Gardenista+Daily+Email+Campaign&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_447a717cea-96faf6d7a9-384348629 hope you enjoy AND IF YOU'D LIKE...
Continue ReadingWhat a great week in the garden. It started with the great photographer Andreas Trautmansdorff shoot in the garden. He's doing it for Gardenista the gardening blog everyone seems to be reading these days. The garden looked ravishing and, of course, Andreas's magnificent photographs captured...
Continue ReadingIt seems an impossible length of time since I've been on this blog. Somehow I managed to be in Paris and came back to winter; and then we went to California and came back to winter. So now Spring is arriving in such a stealthy...
Continue ReadingThis is my latest beauty, not a xeriscape plant of course. It's Acer shirasawnum 'Moonrise' and the touches of red on the palmate leaves are echoed in the red tulips which I'd forgotten I'd planted last fall. Nature the great designer, serendipity for the rest...
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