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Six on Saturday: Gifts
These windmill palms made it from California to Virginia in perfect shape, thanks to Tony Tomeo. Gifts are always fun. Gardening gifts are the best, and gifts of plants always warm my heart. A...
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Four Season Container Gardens
This ‘Four-Season’ container garden grows at the Williamsburg Botanical Garden. It is lush with ferns and Caladiums in late September 2021. Do you have pots that stand empty for weeks out of the year?...
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Six on Saturday: With Patience and Flexibility….
Turneric in bloom with elephant ears It’s finally raining. Cool, soft rain has been falling for several hours now with more on the way. It is such a relief, because I’ve been pulling hoses and...
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Crossing the Line: When Plants Become Invasive
… Athyrium nipponicum ‘Pictum’ grows with English ivy. Ivy is considered a highly invasive plant. There is a long history of botanists and horticulturalists traveling around the world in search of...
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Plants I Love That Deer Ignore….
Lantana attracts butterflies and birds. Deer never touch it. When I began gardening here in a forested community in the autumn of 2009, my earliest efforts resulted in unexpected frustration as deer,...
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Plants I Love That Deer Ignore: Mountain Laurel
Mountain Laurel, Kalmia latifolia I love finding mountain laurel growing in large, lovely masses in the wild. Its creamy pink flowers glow softly in the forest. Wild mountain laurel, Kalmia...
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Six on Saturday: No Mercy
Not so long ago a seedling, and now a towering oak tree giving shade and sheltering wildlife An oak takes a long time to grow from a sprout to a tree. Or so we think. This morning I’m standing below...
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Six on Saturday: Resistance is Usually Futile
Peonies are blooming this week It was so hot here yesterday that pots I had just watered on Thursday, and that seemed fine yesterday morning, were parched and nearly dead when I went out this morning....
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Beautiful and Easy: The Lady Ferns
Japanese painted fern Athyrium ‘Metallicum’ grows with silvery Rex Begonias. When you’re planning what to plant, do your eyes sometimes glaze over while reading the growing instructions? Does it all...
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Catching Up!
Our garden in mid-April I appreciate all of you who have visited and chatted with me on this site over the years. It has been so heartwarming to meet so many interesting people and dedicated gardeners...
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