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GARDEN BLOGS: A visit to Hitch Lyman’s garden, Trumansburg, NY
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...
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GARDEN BLOGS: ACNARGS Member Garden Tour Preview
Sunday was the ACNARGS member garden tour. I saw three of the four we were invited to: David Mitchell’s urban garden in downtown Ithaca, Nariman Mistry’s suburban garden on Ellis Hollow Road, and Susanne Lipari’s...
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GARDEN BLOGS: Docent Days: a garden tour guide in training
I started something new today: a 13-week course in how to be a Cornell Plantations tour guide. “Docent” sounds so weirdly formal, but they call it a living museum. Since I’m going to be there...