In 1878, Sherman Stowell sold to Elizabeth Brockett 30 acres of land which he had earlier purchased from George Jennings. I now live and garden with my family on some of that land, which Jennings or Stowell, or perhaps Ms. Brockett, had cleared of trees to make pasture. The forest is growing back, but it’s […]
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Native Plant Resources for Central and Upstate NY
March 4th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments
Categories: Book reviews · Habitat gardening · Native/Invasive
Keywords: allan armitage · central NY · cny · donald leopold · houghton mifflin · native plants · timber press · upstate ny · william cullina
Your first native plant book
March 28th, 2006 by Kathy Purdy · 3 Comments
If you want to learn more about the plants native to your area, a good place to start would be The New England Wild Flower Society Guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada by William Cullina. He has done a good job creating a general reference work that can help […]
Categories: Book reviews · Habitat gardening · Native/Invasive
Keywords: erythronium · houghton mifflin · native plants · reference · trilliums · trout lily · william cullina
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