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GARDEN BLOGS: New Gardens for Cold Climate Gardening
We. Are. MOVING!!! After 21 years, 9 months, 11 days* in the same location, Purdyville is relocating twenty minutes further out to the middle of nowhere. We are just about doubling our floor space, with...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Gardening With Tulips: Book Review
I have clay soil and several kinds of rodents in my garden, and I’d pretty much given up on growing tulips, but Gardening with Tulips by Michael King is making me reconsider. Not just because...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Two Plant-Related Children’s Books
I have pretty high standards when it comes to children’s books. I don’t like them to be preachy or didactic or otherwise disrespectful of the reader, who may or may not be a child. Last...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Essays on Gardening in a Cold Climate: Book Review
Living in Ontario, Brian Bixley has the well-earned ambivalence of the cold climate gardener, calling winter “the icicle in the soul of the gardener” and yet acknowledging its “shivery perfection.” But the range of his...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Crocuses: A Book Review
Late last week I received a review copy of Crocuses: A Complete Guide to the Genus by Janis Ruksans. This is the kind of gardening book that makes my garden-geeky heart beat faster. It focuses...