Cold Climate Gardening

Perhaps you read The Secret Garden as a child, and remember this cover? Or maybe you just know that Tasha Tudor lives in Vermont and has a gorgeous garden, chronicled by Tovah Martin and photographed by Richard Brown? (Joe Eck of North Hill helped her with part of that garden; it’s in the June 1989 issue of Horticulture.)

Well! Did you know you can tour her garden, as well as those of her family members living …

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It’s about time! Wayne Winterrowd and Joe Eck, co-authors of A Year at North Hill : Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden and Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill, and individually the authors of several more books and numerous magazine articles, finally have a website showcasing their wonderful garden, North Hill.

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This is Colchicum ‘Autumn Queen,’ one of my recent purchases. It’s the one that was practically blooming in the bag, so it’s no surprise it was up two days after I planted it.

By the way, there’s an article in the October 2003 issue of Horticulture that tells you everything I know about colchicums. It made me kind of sad to discover it, because I had it in my head that I would write THE article on colchicums as soon as I did a little more research, and it would be my big break into garden magazine writing. Sigh. By the time I really have time …

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