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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!

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Recent Articles

Rock Garden Society Member Tour

August 30, 2009 by Lynn
Filed under Garden Journals

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.

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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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