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GARDEN BLOGS: Where to plant bulbs? Following my own advice
A couple of years ago, I told you to choose your fall-planted bulb locations now, when the snow is just beginning to melt. Of course, it helps to have snow. We finally got some, and...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Time: The Essence of a Garden (Garden Notes, No. 5, 2011)
Herbert Butterfield’s essay (The Whig Interpretation of History) was an attack on liberal triumphalism [i.e., the 'Whig interpretation']…Whig history purveyed a concept of progress as the central theme of English history…It has become common among...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Winter Garden Design
I just read an interview with Piet Oudolf in the New York Times about designing a garden for winter. I was glad to see he was asked, “What do you do if you live in...
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GARDEN BLOGS: I broke a garden rule today
The garden rule I broke today is: Don’t plant flowers in a straight line. And I did it for a very good reason: I wanted a straight line. I’ve looked at the scene above for...
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GARDEN BLOGS: From Here to There
Maureen and I spent the first weekend of October in Pittsford, a suburb of Rochester, NY. We did the usual things that starry-eyed visitors do, going to a Wegman’s store, where the range and quality...