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Why I Garden
Since eagerness for the next gardening season already plagued me even while the forecast said single digits coming, I got to wondering: why on earth do I garden? Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Plants, Winter
Tagged cactus, canning, Depression, Diervilla lonicera, elderberry, fertilizer, Gertrude Jekyll, insecticide, Japanese beetles, kale, Oriental poppy (Papaver orientalis), peonies, roses, World War II
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Eleventh Hour
‘Tis the season, at last, for dealing with the last dead or dying scraps before wrapping up the garden for the winter. (Don’t worry: the blog will continue. And I’ll have more time for it!) Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged allium, aronia, black vulture, black-eyed Susans, Butterfly bush, carrots, chard, cilantro, coneflowers, COP26, Coreopsis, Cricket Hill Garden, fall, Festiva Maxima, foxglove, frost, garden quilt, garden tasks, garlic, George Orwell, Greenpeace, kale, Kousa dogwood, lettuce, loquat, lychee, mango, mangosteen, medlar, Montauk daisy, parsley, pawpaw, peonies, plants, Rebecca Solnit, reblooming iris, salt-marsh hay, shallots, United Nations, vultures
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Lazier gardening is in style at last!
Fall is arriving so early this year. Too early for me, now matter which standpoint I’m looking from: how much time and effort I’ve put into getting things to grow, only to see them keel over; or the timetable of advice on fall cleanup. Every time I go out to the garden, I find evidence of demise Continue reading
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Tagged bees, cleanup, coldframe, dahlia, dogwood, fall, garden tasks, hakonechloa, heuchera, mulch, peonies, pests and problems, plants, squirrel
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