Seasons

Recovery

Do you ever have weeks where you you look back and just have to ask — what the heck just happened?  I had one of those last week. Little more than a week ago, my family arrived for a visit.  We made things, we fixed things, we cooked, we drank bourbon.  And then we had [...]

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Garden Gallery: The Driveway Garden

Are you looking around your garden wondering where you might be able to make a little extra space for a veggie patch?  Perhaps you might take a little inspiration from Nancy Steiner who transformed her driveway into a garden that feeds her family.    When Nancy and landscape designer Leslie Needham realized that this was the [...]

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Too Much Fun to Be Working

Last week we completed a pretty big renovation of our Rose and Perennial Garden at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The renovations were so large that we may now have to call it the Perennial and Rose Garden plus a lot of other really cool plants. Our roses never performed admirably (where do they without tons [...]

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Spring Tulip Planters

I love changing out my containers for the seasons.  After many years of doing this sort of thing for clients on a large-scale, it is nice to just do one or two around my own house — I can play and experiment in a way that isn’t always possible when the arrangement has to meet [...]

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Flowery Art Installation

I am in one of those moods today. You know the mood we all sometimes get into where you feel like you should pre-warn every single person you come in contact with that you might at some point feel compelled to bite their heads off? That is me today — and I hate it. But [...]

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What You Need When It’s Not Quite Warm Outside

It is a completely glorious snow melting day (though still, a few inches remain on the north-side lawn).  All the sparkly sun made me want to head out side and get my hands dirty….but then I realized…its not quite warm… Nor is it very dry either…in fact it is sopping muddy wet…so I refrained. Instead, I pulled [...]

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Hoar Frost & Winter Gardens

Have you ever heard that bit about their being lots of Eskimo words for snow? True or not, it is a fact that we more commonly use words for things we experience commonly.  So I offer that as an explanation for why I (at least) haven’t really ever heard of hoar-frost.  Frost has always just been [...]

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