Category Archives: spring

May72013
Field Trip: The Litchfield Daffodils

Last Saturday, after talking about garden design at White Flower Farm, I met up with an old friend and we spent the afternoon in Litchfield, CT touring about and catching up.  Our final stop of the day was Laurel Ridge. … Read more

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  1. House, Studio and Garden Hunt…
  2. My lowly daylilies…
  3. A Curated Collection…
LABELS: Gardens, spring Leave a comment

Apr222013
A Perfect Spring Week

There are about two perfect spring weeks every year and last week was one of those. Light was bright and unfiltered by the still bare deciduous canopy. Gardens burst into bloom, the sky was the bluest of blues, and the … Read more

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  1. Beehive Structures
  2. An Afternoon in Berkeley
  3. Designer Annette Von Einem’s Floral Fashion
LABELS: Gardens, Seasons, spring Leave a comment

Mar152012
Spring Brights in the Garden

Early spring is coming early here this year.  Gardens are bursting with unseasonably warm weather.  Here are two stars of the early spring garden (blooming this week) that are much more interesting and super substitutes for the ubiquitous forsythia. Cornus … Read more

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  1. It’s Summer!
  2. Garden Designers Roundtable – Underused Plant(s)
  3. Late Winter Plants in glorious bloom!
LABELS: Cornus mas, Gardens, Jasminum nudiflorum, Planting Design, plants, spring 2 Comments

Apr62011
Early April Gardens

I know that T.S. Elliot’s poem The Wasteland isn’t about gardens.  It is idiosycratic, densely symbolic and ultimately about beauty and meaning in a modern world in ruins.  Kind of appropriate for the way things seem in the world right … Read more

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  1. My lowly daylilies…
  2. Tuesday’s Find…Stone Mushrooms
  3. Tuesday’s Find…Deck Chair
LABELS: Cercis canadensis 'The Rising Sun', Gardens, Rhus typhina 'Tiger Eyes', spring 1 Comment

Apr52010
Monday 11 | A Year of Mondays Project

This image is special because the others have been so grey.  It’s spring in the garden with onions and the neighbor’s honeysuckle and ivy needing some control–and I’m short on time and attention span.  These plants have given me pleasure … Read more

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  1. Monday 14 | A Year of Mondays Project
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LABELS: Garden Styles, spring 1 Comment

Apr72009
Hussies!

I always know it’s really spring when the hussies of spring bloom. Hawking their wares from curbside, stoop, border, and garden these brightly colored plants can’t help their garish adornment–they want us to notice them and come hither. Screaming yellow … Read more

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LABELS: plants, spring 1 Comment

Mar42009
Spring’s Slow March

No pun intended in the title although after another dose of winter weather this week, those of us on the eastern seaboard might believe it. Photo by Johann Dreo,via Wikipedia Commons The coming of this spring’s season seems to be … Read more

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Feb142009
Stuck in the Mud…Ugly Shoes

Spring is approaching in my part of the world and that means…MUD! My favorite pair of rubber and neoprene garden shoes have sprung a leak and need to be replaced. I have tried different types of garden shoes. I don’t … Read more

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LABELS: fashion, gardeners, shoes, spring 2 Comments

Feb22009
Thoughts of Spring…on Ground Hog Day

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LABELS: groundhog day, spring 4 Comments