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Easy Vs Meaning
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – January 11 As I prepare to give a talk for the Rhode Island Nursery & Landscape Association, I’m once again thinking about how for too long the green industry has...
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Seeing Color, Growth and Joy
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – March 2 We can’t control much of what happens in our lives, but we can keep our eyes open for color, growth and joy. And any time we notice these gifts, even in small...
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Seasons of Life
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – March 5 I noticed that the first crocus are in bloom today. They are always a welcome sight but especially so today. My mother-in-law, Maria Fornari, died yesterday so we...
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Rescue
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – March 21 I’ve featured my bamboo cloches in this blog before so you know how much I love them. Imagine how upset I was when one blew away last week after a night of very...
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Comparisons
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – April 6 One could make an argument that given how tied in we are to the internet, people are doing more comparing than ever before. Google searches for “The best xyz” or...
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Yin and Yang Customers
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – May 9 On Monday I helped some people in the perennial section of the garden center. I’d say they were yin-and-yang-customers…on the one hand they were excited about...
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Garden Envy
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – June 26 There was a three-year period in my adult life when I was without my gardens. During this time I mostly stayed away from visiting other landscapes because I was...
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Poppies and Garden Connections…
You Can Grow That! Last year about this time I visited Chris Hestwood’s beautiful garden on Nantucket. I admired her beautiful poppies (Papaver somniferous) and a few weeks later she brought me some...
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The Garden @
Garden Reports and Rejoicing – August 5 I had great intentions of working for a good, long stretch in the garden today but the humid, 87 degree weather changed my mind. We harvested potatoes, picked...
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Late Harvest
Only one quarter of the veggie garden still contains plants, and these grow thinner as we harvest. Still, to be eating from the garden on the thirteenth of December is a real blessing and we don’t take...
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