Cold Climate Gardening

Does anyone know what happened to the NY Flora Atlas? I can get a cached image of the site on Google, but my browser tells me the server can’t be found. Did the organization go under? Did they lose funding for the website? It seemed like such a worthy project, mapping native populations of various […]

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Well, Ro confessed, so here’s my confession, too. Except mine’s quite different.
I don’t really like seed shopping! I consider it a chore. A necessary chore, but a chore nonetheless. So I tend to procrastinate, and put it off, often for longer than I ought. I know this, and I guess in the back […]

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I recently learned that the area around my house that the kids play on is not a lawn but a cropped meadow. Ken Druse, writing in The Passion for Gardening: Inspiration for a Lifetime, describes a cropped meadow as “simply the grasses and non-grass plants (or forbs) that were already there, cut short (and never […]

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I bet you think that my prolonged absence from this blog is because I’ve been too busy gardening. Wrong. I wish it were true, but what has really kept me away from here, and the garden, is a housekeeping project of Immense Proportions, as Winnie-the-Pooh might say. I originally thought it would take me a […]

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Due to the crazy weather, all my tulips are blooming at once, and it is quite delightful. I have taken pictures with an old fashioned film camera, so if I get them developed, I will post pictures. I will also have pictures to look at when there is nothing but dying tulip foliage […]

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Barbara Kinkade writes: “I would like to know other peoples’ experience as to hardy, easy growing Clematis for Zone 4 in Montana.” She’s already seen this post, so I imagine she wants to hear more from others.

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…and I don’t think I can take it, ’cause it too so long to rake it, and I’ll never have the energy again… (You are supposed to sing that to MacArthur Park, for those of you who are old enough to remember the song, and sing it with great drama, please!)
Yes, I left my […]

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