News flash: There is a snowdrop that blooms in the fall, Galanthus reginae-olgae, Queen Olga’s snowdrop. Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck, in the most excellent A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden, confirm that
It does indeed bloom in the snow, the first snow, which generally comes about the last week in […]
Entries from October 2006
Gardening Explained. On Film.
October 29th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Categories: Garden chores · Recommended Links
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There’s a Map for It
October 27th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Got this email today:
About 6 months ago, Mapmuse.com began a project- the interactive mapping of garden centers and nurseries across the US. We initially researched and populated these maps ourselves, with the idea in mind that the public would subsequently add to, and enhance, the information we provided. We mapped each garden center or nursery, […]
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Fall Perennials
October 24th, 2006 by Craig Levy · 6 Comments
Tick-tock, winter is coming. I was greeted at dawn with a few hours of light snow this morning. It melted as it landed, not like the snows that have recently visited Watertown and plagued Buffalo. It is a warning that fall is at a close and winter is coming. I spent this past weekend digging […]
Categories: Plant info · What's up/blooming
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Earth-sheltered Greenhouse
October 23rd, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 5 Comments
Here are plans to make an Earth-sheltered Greenhouse from a man in Idaho. He actually built it into the side of a hill to help moderate the temperatures inside. It looks like he dug it all out by hand. (Click on Image Gallery for close-ups.) He must have wanted vegetables badly! I’m pretty sure if […]
Categories: Recommended Links · Hardscaping and Projects
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Kathy’s Autumn Picture Show
October 21st, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 14 Comments
Sunday, October 8th, was a gorgeous autumn day, sunny and warm. I decided to go up the hill for a walk in the woods, camera in hand, and you get to share the results. (Be forewarned: this is an even longer than usual post.) But first, a little bit about where we’re going. Our family […]
Categories: Colchicums · Habitat gardening · Native/Invasive
Keywords: asters · autumn · colchicum · colchicums · foliage · habitat gardening · native plants · paths · secret garden · winterberry · witch hazel
Gardening Group at LibraryThing
October 19th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 9 Comments
If you’re the type of person who pays attention to sidebars, you probably already know that I’m a member of LibraryThing. (Hint: it’s a section called My Bookshelf, and it’s only on the sidebars I thought most appropriate.) Over the summer, LibraryThing started a new aspect to their site called “Groups”, which I didn’t discover […]
Categories: Book reviews · Recommended Links
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Blogging and Copyright Protection series by Lorelle
October 15th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 9 Comments
Several weeks ago on Garden Rant there was a small storm of indignation regarding the attitude expressed at a garden writers convention that what bloggers write was free for the taking without attribution. Most bloggers are flattered to be quoted, but instances of entire posts being republished somewhere else without permission, or even acknowledgment, are […]
Categories: About this site · Recommended Links · Blogging Art and Practice
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