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

 
January 19 2012
Papyrus, toe to toe

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The feathery tops of papyrus canes are gorgeous, as are the mahogany bases of the warm-weather stems.  In Winter, those stems are brighter still:  Lobster red.   

 
January 18 2012
Purple-leaf Spinach Bugleweed

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Two snows into Winter, and this bizarre Ajuga still hasn't flinched.  Crinkly purple foliage is particularly evergreen.  Who knew?

 
January 17 2012
Non-flowering Tree Ivy

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This evergreen shrublet is the oddball even among its cohort of weirdos, the adult ivies.   So, of course, I had to plant lots of it.

 
 
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