April 2011

Pussy Willow: Wildflower Wednesday

April 27, 2011

For Wildflower Wednesday, I try to feature a native plant growing wild on our property. I took a walk on Monday to see what was blooming, and found only one plant blooming, a shrub which looked to me like a pussy willow. I looked through my books and discovered that’s exactly what it was: Salix [...]

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Spring, Spring, Where Are You? Garden Bloggers Bloom Day April 2011

April 17, 2011

This slow, cold, cloudy spring is sorely trying my patience. It’s taking forever for anything to bloom. But then, looking over past GBBD posts, it’s really not that far behind other springs. It’s just that last year, spring came earlier than usual. Somehow that became the new normal, just like that. How soon we forget. [...]

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Cold Climate Gardening Resources You May Not Know About

April 13, 2011

I was just helping out a gardener who moved from California to upstate NY. (I think she’s over the shock.) It made me realize that not everyone who stops by thinks to look at the top menu bar to see what else is here. So come along and take a tour with me. And just [...]

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Snowdrops Extraordinaires from the Temple Nursery Open Garden

April 4, 2011

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I visited Hitch Lyman’s collection of snowdrops courtesy the Garden Conservancy’s Open Gardens program. Hitch owns the Temple Nursery, the premier snowdrop nursery in the United States, with over 400 different varieties on site, though only a fraction of them are offered for sale each year. Four hundred [...]

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