This year’s member tour showcased starkly different gardens–urban, suburban, country, and commercial–whose common theme was the expert intertwining of rock, native, and traditional plantings.
read moreBringing Ithaca's Gardeners Together
The Ithaca Garden Network is a community of gardeners focused on sharing ideas, photos, and thoughts. Not yet a formal organization, it is the attempt of one local native plant and gardening enthusiast, David Furber, to provide a means for gardeners to come together to share and get to know each other. Learn more!
What can you do here?
- Keep up with what's going on in the Ithaca gardening community.
- Find friends among your fellow gardening Ithacans.
- Keep a garden journal
- Share your plant pics
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ACNARGS Member Garden Tour Preview
June 15, 2009 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Journals
Sunday was the ACNARGS member garden tour. I saw three of the four we were invited to: David Mitchell’s urban garden in downtown Ithaca, Nariman Mistry’s suburban garden on Ellis... read more
Finally feels like spring
April 18, 2009 by Rosemarie
Filed under Garden Journals
There are finally enough flowers in my yard for it to feel like spring. My early spring bulbs are mostly eaten by critters, although the scilla bifolia colors the whole... read more
Composting is for the Birds
March 08, 2009 by David Furber
Filed under Garden Journals
Today was warm and weekendy enough to do something in the garden, so I got my first chance to implement something I learned at the Designing With Native Plants conference... read more
Docent Days: a garden tour guide in training
March 04, 2009 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Journals
I started something new today: a 13-week course in how to be a Cornell Plantations tour guide. “Docent” sounds so weirdly formal, but they call it a living museum. Since... read more
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