Hitch 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 […]
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Hitch Lyman’s Garden: Garden Conservancy Open Days
May 18th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
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Keywords: central NY · cny · Hitch Lyman · Ithaca · open days · Temple Nursery · upstate ny
Central and Upstate NY Horticultural Events
February 17th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Brave the snow, get out of the house, and learn something new! Here are some gardener-worthy events coming up in my neck of the woods.
“CNY Blooms” –Spring 2007 will sprout up before you know it, and with it the blossoming of Syracuse’s flower and garden show, now known as “CNY Blooms”. Mark your planting calendar […]
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Keywords: central NY · cny · flower show · garden design · garden events · habitat gardening · Ithaca · native plants · Syracuse
New England Garden Events
December 15th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
Lookee here: a blog devoted to New England Garden Events. Events with big names, like Dan Hinkley, Rick Darke, Sean Conway, Gordon Hayward, Fergus Garrett . . . need I go on? If New England is your territory, or you’re going to be in the neighborhood, this is worth checking out. And just think, you […]
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Kitchen Gardeners International: International Kitchen Garden Day 2006
August 17th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · No Comments
International Kitchen Garden Day is an annual, decentralized celebration of food produced on a human-scale. It is an opportunity for people around the world to gather in their gardens with friends, family, and members of their local community to celebrate the multiple pleasures and benefits of home-grown, hand-made foods.
Have you ever met a child who […]
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Open Days in Tioga County
June 6th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
Do you remember the specialist snowdrop catalog I mentioned way back in January? If you happen to be near Trumansburg, NY, this Saturday, you can visit his garden (and three others) thanks to the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program. I wish I were touring all four gardens, but I’ve got way too much gardening to […]
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Let’s Go Native!
March 15th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 3 Comments
If you live within a day trip of Syracuse, NY, you might be interested in the Spring Gardening Seminar hosted by The Men’s Garden Club of Syracuse and Phoenix Flower Farm. Entitled “Going Native,” it’s being held at the Craftsman Inn in Fayetteville, NY on April 1st. William Cullina, author of The New England Wild […]
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USDA to clamp down further on seed importation: what you can do
March 14th, 2005 by Judy Miller · No Comments
If you’ve ever ordered from Chiltern’s, tried new basil or lettuce varieties from Europe, or have pretty hybrid plants from England in your garden (Verbascum ‘Jackie’, Heuchera ‘Bressingham Hybrids’, etc.)——– you can forget about anything new. The USDA is slamming shut the borders on new plants.
Maybe you’re already aware of this. It is […]
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