NEW Trips to Take!

Myrtle's easy when the conditions are right.

 
 
 
 

NEW Plants to Try!

Louis tries to capture the exact words to describe the fleeting but deep pleasures to be found in these Summer-into-Autumn incredibles.

 
 
 
 

NEW Gardening to Do!

Allergic to bees? You can still have an exciting garden, full of flowers and color and wildlife.

 

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A Gardening Journal

"…a pyrotechnic secret garden combining exuberance and restraint, abundance and thrift.  The effect is downright poetic."  - The Boston Globe

 
May 16 2012
Dwarf Broom

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The new stems and leaves of Genista lydia are fresh green.  As myriad forsythia-yellow flowers open, the shrub becomes, briefly, the brightest plant in the entire garden.

 
May 14 2012
Full-moon Maple

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Round, pointed leaves in solid acid-green, sparked with heads of tiny rose-red and white flowers.  Look closer: The flowers also have pale sepals that tweet out to the bright leaves.  Full-moon maple: Could any hardy plant be more subtle—as well as more brilliant?

 
May 13 2012
Variegated Orixa

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This variegated shrub is a member of the citrus family, with foliage that looks a lot like that of variegated orange trees.  But Orixa japonica is hardy as far north as Montreal. 

 
 
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