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Weave a Garden of Self-Sown Splendor
Believe it or not, though I've earned my living as a gardener and horticulturist for most of my adult life, it wasn't until a few years ago that I began to plan the first garden I could call my own. My gardens had always been shared with my ... [... more]
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Remaking a Bed
Early on, when I began learning about gardening, I went to a garden club lecture given by local gardening legend Sydney Eddison. I sat at a table surrounded by matronly club members who asked me what I specialized in. I told them quite naively ... [... more]
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Mass Plantings
I learned about the value of mass plantings when my husband and I bought a renovated barn with a large backyard opening to a 3-acre hay field. I liked the fact that our site enjoyed full sun and a magnificent view of mountains, but I was stumped ... [... more]
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Naturalizing Spring-Blooming Bulbs
Along one of my favorite hiking trails near my home is a clear spring and the stone foundation of an old farmhouse that was abandoned more than a century ago. Though we no longer know the names and habits of the people who once lived there, they ... [... more]
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Plant by Number
Picture yourself at the garden center salivating in front of that hot new perennial or the hard-to-find shrub you've coveted for the last few years. You know you're going to give in and buy it, so the real question is, Exactly how many do you ... [... more]
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Planting Ground Covers
Nothing fills a vacant space and minimizes garden maintenance like herbaceous ground covers. Steadily gaining ground in the first few seasons, these plants can transform a dull space into a rich tapestry of leaf shapes, textures, and colors. They ... [... more]
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Planted Pockets Give Life to Stone Walls
You have to approach building stone walls a lot like you do life. When you hit stumbling blocks, look for creative opportunities. In wall building, those opportunities come when a rock fits well on all sides except one. Instead of launching a ... [... more]
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Planting under a Tree
You aren't a fool for wanting to put a garden beneath a mature tree. It's natural for a gardener to close his or her eyes and transform this patch of hard earth, sparse weeds, and knobby roots into a shady nook lush with hostas, astilbes, and ... [... more]
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Digging and Storing Woody Plants
As a professional gardener, I am often called on to move poorly sited woody plants. Sometimes it's because time considerations were left out of the design process: That once cute little boxwood has become a green behemoth at my client's back ... [... more]
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To Stake or Not to Stake
With apologies to Shakespeare and Hamlet, to stake or not to stake is the question. When it comes to staking trees, too many gardeners choose the former option. It is true that there are situations when a young tree is thankful for some ... [... more]
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Planting Bareroot Trees
I got a look of disbelief when I told a friend I'd planted a tree that had been shipped from a nursery 3,000 miles away. When I explained that the tree had arrived "bareroot," I could see the term bring on a shudder. Disbelief and shuddering ... [... more]
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