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GARDEN BLOGS: Two Houses, part 2
In the Oakland hills near the Berkeley border is Chapel of the Chimes, a columbarium. Renovated and expanded by Julia Morgan, the architect of Hearst Castle in San Simeon, it is a melding of Spanish...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Two Houses, part 1
The street I grew up on was lined with Sycamore trees. Their leafy masses were a delight in summer and always produced some good-natured grumbling during fall raking. These were small city lots and as...
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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: Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat
Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat via The Wired Gardener http://bit.ly/bvVLTi. The Wired Gardener is a newsletter, now become a blog, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s McClean Library. It almost always has a link to...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Forget-Me-Nots En Masse
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...