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GARDEN BLOGS: Tour Brian Bixley’s Garden
As a result of reading my book review, Deborah of Garden Theatre wound up visiting Brian Bixley and touring his garden. Since her visit was in early spring, her photographs clearly illustrate the underlying design...
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GARDEN BLOGS: In That Spot: Lilactree Farm Garden Notes, No. 1, 2011
Surely this starting into growth is the true Spring in plant life, whether it be an awakening due to the melting of a covering of snow as with the true alpines, or the commencement of...
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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: 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...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Summer’s Stillness
…………When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that; move still, still so, And own no other function. W.S., The Winter’s Tale (4.4. 140-43)...