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secret swimming hole
May 31, 2010 by Lynn
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We’re having the flip-side of last summer’s cool, grey, wet days: baking hot and dry. In these conditions, one needs a retreat that’s free from undergrads and hoooha. This is one of ours. looking upstream southwest looking upstream northwest Where do you cool off? Filed under: Slaterville Springs Tagged: Slaterville Springs, summer
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In memory
May 31, 2010 by Lynn
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of our military men and women, and all who have given their lives for another. Our gratitude is not enough. Filed under: Uncategorized
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First Spinach Harvest
May 26, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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My husband harvested the first of our spinach crop yesterday, and he says there’s this much or more left to be harvested. He wants to do that this evening, because it is threatening to bolt in this heat. We had a yummy spinach salad, and gave away the rest of this bowlful to two neighbors. [...]
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‘Spring Fling’ entry for Picture This photo contest
May 25, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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Well, I started out shooting pix for the original theme (backlit). And of those shots, this one is closest to the ‘Spring Fling’ theme. Frankly, it needs more whimsy. Thanks to GGW folks for forging ahead under not the best of circumstances.
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Hitch Lyman’s Temple Nursery Garden
May 24, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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I visited Hitch Lyman’s garden in Trumansburg, NY. on May 8th. It was one of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens, as I mentioned previously. His Temple Nursery is the only U.S. nursery that specializes in snowdrops. The snowdrops were long gone, but lilacs and species peonies were blooming. Hitch Lyman has a wonderful Greek [...]
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Happy Monday: Photosynthesis with TMBG
May 24, 2010 by Lynn
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It was news to me (not having children and not generally browsing the kids’ section of the music store) that They Might Be Giants are all the rage for the under-10 set, singing about science no less! And numbers, and the alphabet–”C” is for conifer you know. Thanks to Ink and Penstemon for letting us [...]
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House Beautiful Readers, Welcome
May 23, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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Cold Climate Gardening has a tiny bit-part in House Beautiful’s June issue. If you happen to subscribe or see a copy for sale, turn to page 40 and check out the top right part of the page. If you don’t manage to get hold of a copy, no worries. It is a shortened version of [...]
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Cornell (infra) Red
May 23, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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If you’re on campus, check out Kent Loeffler’s infrared photos of sites in and around the Cornell campus in the gallery on the second floor of Mann Library. Kent used a specially modified digital camera that only records infrared. It does very interesting things with trees and clouds. You can view more at his [...]
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Villa Nellcôte
May 23, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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That’s the name of the villa in the south of France where the Rolling Stones recorded Exile on Main Street, re-released this last week. As David Itszkoff wrote in the New York Times ArtBeat blog: If, after listening to all 18 tracks and 67 minutes of the Rolling Stones‘ “Exile on Main Street” you’ve ever thought to [...]
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Win cash money for that garden picture
May 19, 2010 by Lynn
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$1,000 cash money! If you haven’t started exploring your garden with a camera yet, perhaps this will entice you: Horticulture magazine is hosting a photo contest to be judged by garden photographer Rob Cardillo, and the grand prize is a grand! The winning photo will appear in the January 2011 issue of Horticulture. Deadline is [...]
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CCG Is Runner-Up in 2010 Mouse & Trowel Awards
May 18, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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A big thank you to everyone who voted for Cold Climate Gardening, which was the runner-up in the Best Rural Gardening/Farming Blog category of the Mouse & Trowel garden blog awards. It is a high compliment, and I hope to provide you with more and better in the coming twelve months. Congratulations to Kylee of Our [...]
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May bloom day scans
May 16, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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A day late and a dollar short. View more bloom day scans. Try it yourself. It’s easy. Flower scanning directions are here.
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May 2010
May 15, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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It always seems like there is nothing blooming in mid-May, but when I really look around, I realize there is a lot blooming but none of it is flashy, like the big yellow sheets of daffodils previous or the three Grandes Dames of June that will soon be here. The blooms of mid-May are modest [...]
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May dreams come true: bloom day
May 14, 2010 by Lynn
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It’s the day May Dreams Gardens fulfills its name. Thanks to Carol for hosting bloom day and getting me out with a camera to look at our garden a bit closer today. There’s wonderful stuff out there, and it’s gratifying to see how this young garden is growing up–there’s so much more going on in [...]
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Some kind of nature
May 14, 2010 by Lynn
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Gorillaz yummy new song, featuring an elderly sounding Lou Reed. Filed under: music I love Tagged: music I love
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How big is the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?
May 13, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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Use this utility to find out what this would look like superimposed on your neck of the world. Here it is over Ithaca, N.Y.:
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Gardener 4, Voles 146
May 11, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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Last fall, I planted 150 species tulips. My last words on that post were “it will still look beautiful next spring.” Boy, was I wrong. The snowdrops that I had divided came up. At least some of the crocus that I divided came up. And four tulips emerged and bloomed. Four. Out of one hundred and [...]
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now that’s poeticus
May 11, 2010 by Lynn
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So excited bout these–When I visited Kathy Purdy two Septembers ago, I received these bulbs from her good friend and neighbor. They didn’t bloom last year, so it’s pretty special to see them now. And they smell fantastic! Filed under: garden Tagged: bulb, passalong
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I Hate These Kind of Plants
May 10, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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I hate the plants that can survive a cold winter but can’t take a hard spring frost. It is so aggravating! The problem is they emerge too early from dormancy for their own good. I’m talking about: ‘Endless Summer’ hydrangea. It will get through a USDA Zone 4 winter but break into leaf long before the [...]
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Backlit
May 10, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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I started gearing up for the ‘backlit’ theme for GGW photo contest this month. It was fun. Too bad it got pulled.
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Marsh marigold
May 10, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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This year’s crop of Caltha palustris doesn’t disappoint. This is low maintenance gardening at it’s best.
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Sunday’s snow
May 10, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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A few pre-dawn pix of the dusting we got Sunday morning. (Not as bad as the mid-20s expected here tonight.) Plants you don’t normally see this far along in snow.
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A visit to Hitch Lyman’s garden, Trumansburg, NY
May 09, 2010 by Lynn
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Saturday was the county’s first Garden Conservancy Open Days tour, at Hitch Lyman’s garden in Trumansburg. He may be best known to the garden community for his snowdrop obsession–he sells from his large collection through his Temple Nursery catalog. The New York Times profiled him recently, and he’s quoted in a Wall Street Journal article [...]
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Forget-Me-Nots En Masse
May 08, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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On my way to Hitch Lyman’s Trumansburg, NY garden today I passed by this amazing bank of forget-me-nots on the other side of the road. Although my camera battery had died shortly after I got to Lyman’s garden, it had recovered sufficiently to take this shot by the time I was returning home. I just [...]
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Weekend pix
May 06, 2010 by Craig Cramer
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Spring continues to be hectic. Am way behind on all fronts. But have a few minutes to post pix from last weekend. Some were obviously shot for the now-defunct GGW ‘backlit’ photo contest. Oh well.
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Hitch Lyman’s Garden Open to the Public This Saturday
May 04, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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This Saturday, May 8, 2010, Hitch Lyman’s garden will be open to the public from 10am to 4pm, as part of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program. I’m planning on going, and I’ll wear my special Cold Climate Gardening baseball cap. If you see me, introduce yourself so we can chat. The Open Days Directory [...]
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Cold Climate Gardening Nominated for Best Rural/Farming Blog
May 03, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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A while back I mentioned that nominations were being accepted for the Mouse & Trowel awards. Frankly, I didn’t expect to get nominated, as I couldn’t spare the time to “promote” myself and the garden blogging arena has gotten quite a bit more crowded. Imagine my surprise to discover I had been nominated for [...]
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a day like today
April 30, 2010 by Lynn
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It’s the trees that mean spring to me now. Over the weeks, we’ve been watching the hills change from silver grey and evergreen to a gentle lime gleam, broad blushes of rouge, and now big bursts of white are shouting that it’s going to be 80 degrees here tomorrow. First it was the Juneberry (Amelanchier) [...]
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Unhappy Thursday: Buddy wrestles the skunk
April 30, 2010 by Lynn
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Yes, our Buddy. Poor little stinker. Filed under: wild animals! Tagged: mostly Beagle
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What’s Wrong With My Juneberry?
April 27, 2010 by Kathy Purdy
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They’re having a plant clinic over at Garden Rant, and I decided to submit the perplexing, premature leaf drop my ‘Autumn Brilliance’ Juneberry exhibits every year. The leaf drop was addressed in today’s clinic, but since they didn’t show all the images, I thought I’d share them here. So much [...]
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