On April 19th I met my sister in Ithaca, NY. She is a graduate of Cornell University, and has made many visits since then. We were going to the ACNARGS meeting in the afternoon, but first she wanted to show me a few of her favorite places.
One of the places she wanted to take me […]
Entries tagged with upstate ny
Birdbaths at the Ithaca Agway
April 28th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 7 Comments
Categories: Wishlist · Hardscaping and Projects
Keywords: central NY · cny · garden ornament · Ithaca · upstate ny
A Way to Garden: The Book Becomes a Blog
April 20th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments
I am sure I first read A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season in 1998, the year it was published. I may have been the first person to pull it off the library book shelf and take it home. It had everything I ever want in a garden book: great photos that […]
Categories: Book reviews · Recommended Links
Keywords: garden writers · margaret roach · upstate ny
Visit Snowdrop Heaven: The Temple Nursery
March 27th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 15 Comments
My main snowdrop “patch” exactly a year ago. They are not so far along this year. Click the photo for a close-up
With 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 […]
Categories: Events · Snowdrops
Keywords: central NY · cny · fingger lakes · garden conservancy · garden events · garden tours · Hitch Lyman · snowdrop · snowdrops · Temple Nursery · upstate ny
Native Plant Resources for Central and Upstate NY
March 4th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 12 Comments
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 […]
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
Hello, Rochester, and welcome!
February 17th, 2008 by Kathy Purdy · 5 Comments
Jane Milliman in “Put down the shovel and blog” had some nice things to say about this website. Rochester is a garden loving city and I am happy to welcome its residents to my little corner of the internet. You can browse through the blog by date, category, or tag (some of the bigger categories […]
Categories: About this site
Keywords: media mentions · rochester · upstate ny
Martha Stewart Living editors open their gardens
August 31st, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 2 Comments
If you are a fan of Martha Stewart Living magazine you might be interested to learn that editors Margaret Roach and Andrew Beckman will each be opening their gardens to the public as part of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program. Details and directions are on the Conservancy’s website.
This and other garden events for upstate […]
Categories: Events
Keywords: garden events · garden tours · upstate ny
Hitch Lyman’s Garden: Garden Conservancy Open Days
May 18th, 2007 by Kathy Purdy · 11 Comments
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 […]
Categories: Events
Keywords: central NY · cny · Hitch Lyman · Ithaca · open days · Temple Nursery · upstate ny
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