I visited Hitch Lyman's garden in Trumansburg, NY. on May 8th. It was one of the Garden Conservancy's Open Gardens, as I mentioned previously. His Temple Nursery is the only U.S. nursery that specializes in snowdrops. The snowdrops were long gone, but lilacs and species peonies were blooming. Hitch Lyman has a wonderful Greek Revival [...]
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Hitch Lyman’s Garden Open to the Public This Saturday
May 4, 2010 – Posted in: EventsThis Saturday, May 8, 2010, Hitch Lyman's garden will be open to the public from 10am to 4pm, as part of the Garden Conservancy's Open Days program. I'm planning on going, and I'll wear my special Cold Climate Gardening baseball cap. If you see me, introduce yourself so we can chat. The Open Days Directory [...]
Hitch Lyman’s Snowdrops in NY Times
April 16, 2009 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, SnowdropsThe only nursery selling snowdrops exclusively, in the NYTimes today: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/garden/16garden.html
Hitch Lyman’s Garden: Garden Conservancy Open Days
May 18, 2007 – Posted in: EventsHitch Lyman is a national snowdrop specialist. Of course, the snowdrops are long gone, but doesn't his garden sound wonderful? From the Garden Conservancy website: Enjoy this extraordinary collection of 200 lilac varieties as well as species of peonies, daphnes, and crabapples. The 1848 Greek Revival-style farmhouse was moved to this site in 1990 and [...]
Snowdrops Extraordinaires from the Temple Nursery Open Garden
April 4, 2011 – Posted in: SnowdropsAs 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 [...]
Not Your Ordinary Snowdrops
March 28, 2011 – Posted in: SnowdropsThere are snowdrops, and then there are snowdrops. I, for the most part, have been content with the Galanthus nivalis (pictured below) I was given many years ago, which have multiplied greatly from my division and their own efforts at self-propagation. Others become obsessed with differences in pedicels, spathes, and inner and outer petals. We [...]
Forget-Me-Nots En Masse
May 8, 2010 – Posted in: Plant info, What's up/bloomingOn my way to Hitch Lyman's Trumansburg, NY garden today I passed by this amazing bank of forget-me-nots on the other side of the road. Although my camera battery had died shortly after I got to Lyman's garden, it had recovered sufficiently to take this shot by the time I was returning home. I just [...]
Scenes from snowdrop heaven
April 12, 2008 – Posted in: Events, SnowdropsPhoto of Temple Nursery snowdrop courtesy Craig Cramer. All rights reserved.True to his word, Craig of Ellis Hollow did indeed visit the Temple Nursery on Open Garden Day, and took pictures. If you haven't stopped over to read his account and get a glimpse of the variety possible within the genus Galanthus, now would be [...]
Visit Snowdrop Heaven: The Temple Nursery
March 27, 2008 – Posted in: Events, SnowdropsMy main snowdrop "patch" exactly a year ago. They are not so far along this year. Click the photo for a close-upWith all my blathering on about snowdrops, I almost forgot to mention that Hitch Lyman's garden will be the Garden Conservancy's first New York state event for their 2008 Open Garden Days on April [...]
Snowdrop Race
January 5, 2006 – Posted in: Catalog review, Plant info, Snowdrops, What's up/bloomingOld Roses has won the snowdrop race, but IBOY made a fine showing. Me? I won't even start looking for snowdrops till February, but I'll be lucky to find any before March. And what about the Southerners? How far south can one go and still grow snowdrops? These snowdrops were blooming in the Secret Garden [...]
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