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The Homestead, Emily Dickinson's home where she lived and wrote, when the landscaping was in its prime, ca 1860s.Emily Dickinson Museum Landscape Renovation:Nineteenth Century Village Landscape Features Unite Historic HomesAmherst, MA celebrates its 250th anniversary of founding in 2009 and the Emily Dickinson Garden Landscape is rennovated.Reconstructed mid-19th century landscape features unite

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Lake Placid Florida - Caladium Capital of the WorldThe perfect place for southern gardeners to spend a sunny summer weekend and learn more about this fascinating plant. Festival features:Air-conditioned Bus Tours to the Colorful Caladium FieldsCaladium Bulbs & Plants for SaleArts & Crafts BoothsFood - Refreshments - Events & EntertainmentArea's Growing Grape Industry Wine DisplayAlligator

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This sounds very interesting!Pioneers Regional Symposia 2009-10 http://bit.ly/rurDr

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Leucothoe axillaris - Spring FoliageCoastal LeucothoeHydrangea quercifolia - Emerging LeavesGoosefoot / Oakleaf Hydrangea Cercis canadensis - Pine BackgroundEastern RedBudIt is possible for gardeners in eastern N.A. to successfully plant and grow ornamental plants despite heavy populations of Virginia white-tail deer (Odocoileus virginianus).Most of the deer-resistant shrubs and small trees that

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Cercis canadensis 'Alba' - Springfield, MA©Georgene A. Bramlage, June 2007Here is a list of some of my spring articles and blogs - some current, some from previous years. They include my favorite trees like redbuds and witch hazel, annuals like petunias, perennials like the new breed of echinacea (cone flower), and spring-flowering bulbs.Crabapple Trees in the LandscapeEighteen kinds of

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Here I am, for my first Spring time, nestled into the embrace of the Blue Ridge Mts., VA.This has been, I am told, an exceptionally mild winter. But for someone who is escaping New England winters, I am certainly not complaining.I first wrote about my transition in November (2007) in A Gardener's Soul: Growing Zone 5 to Zone 7. Moving from growing zone 5 in western MA to growing zone 7 in

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Happy Valentine's DayLove is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right.Love bears all things; believes all things; hopes all things; endures all things.In honor of the great saint associated with love on February 14th, Landscapes of

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St. Francis of AsissiCourtesy of Carruth StudiosWhat do Great Thinkers have to do with St. Francis of Asissi and saints for the garden?It may be cold outside, but my fellow writers at Suite101 generate warmth with their writing. Tel Asiado (Great Thinkers topic) recently wrote two polls -Medieval Thinkers and 19th Century Scientists - which kept many of us on our toes. To vote, we needed one out

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Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts Bridge of FlowersTraveling and visiting gardens is one of the delights of my life. It may just be January, but it is never too early for those of us with the traveling bug to begin our plans for this year's garden excursions. I've just made my reservations for a trip to Holland during tulip time. And I've begun my yearly review of gardens I visited last summer. I

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photo courtesy of IT Saul PlantsHybrid Echinaceas and selections of Echinacea purpurea are among the most spectacular new plants for American landscape designs in 2008. I write about them in my latest articles at Landscaping@Suite101:Echinacea Selections in Landscapes: New Cultivars Can Enhance Prairie and Meadow Gardens, andUp-to-the-minue Echinacea Hybrids: Enhance Prairie Landscape and Meadow

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Crabapple Tree Diseases Lead to Filthy and Dangerous Sidewalks It's that time of year...some of us are still planting spring-blooming bulbs or looking forward to winter holiday decorations. However, right now, before the holiday festivities get underway in earnest, is the best time to look back at the 2007 growing season. And this is what I do in this week's Suite101 Landscaping article:

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Photo #1 - Damage done to pavements and front entrance because either a young tree was planted in the wrong location or a seedling was allowed to grow. Result is an unhealthy tree that needed to be cut and the expense of repair of hardscape.Mistakes? Everyone makes one, now and then. However, Landscape Maintenance Mistakes...what I've begun to term Horticultural Horrors...abound in both

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Courtesy of American WildflowersPoppies and Patriotism Symbolize the Red of SacrificeEarlier this week. I recalled just how important the upcoming November 11 holiday is when I attended an elementary school Veterans' Day concert put on by first grade students.Many readers like myself, school-age during the 1930s and 40s, learned that the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month marked the

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I grew up and learned about plants, horticulture and landscaping in OH - definitely a Plant Growing Zone 5. I've lived in western MA for about four decades and more and more have claimed that I have a zone 7 soul trapped in a weak zone 5 gardener's body. Now, I will have a chance to prove it. Earlier this week, my husband and I moved into a condominium cottage nestled in the shadow of the Blue

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Do Woolly Worms really forecast winter's length in the northeast U.S.? It is anyone's guess! I spend a lot of my autumn garden days in dreaming and observing what is around me than I do gardening. One of my favorite pursuits is to watch wooly worms - wooly bears, black-ended bears, banded woolly bears - inch their way about the garden landscape.Folklore has it that these critters can predict

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Fountain - Sculpture Garden - Paradise City Arts FestivalMay 2007I'm captivated by regional arts and crafts shows. It seems as if each seasonal change brings another arts show or crafts fair to attend. Although I can't go to as many as I'd like, nor spend as much money as I'd like (!), I do manage to visit several each year.I'm fortunate to have some friends who enjoy these shows as much as I

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Autumn arrived this week. Look Out! Here come the autumn colors in temperate North America.Seasonal Color Inspiration: Autumn by COLOURlovers is a great web site to begin an investigation of why leaves turn color in the autumn. And because COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends, one of it sections includes color palettes. It's also a great web location to see how

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My fascination with the development of The House of Seven Gables Historic Neighborhood by Caroline O. Emmerton and Joseph E. Chandler continues.Colonial Homes and Revival Gardens: The House of The Seven Gables Historic Neighborhood, my most recent article about this development, discussesPreservation and RestorationGarden Designs, andGardens and Selected Houses.

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This has nothing to do with horticulture. However, I respect Dr. Goodall and I like the black-footed ferret!Dr. Jane Goodall Visits:The Endangered Species Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center near Ft. Collins, Colorado.August 31, 2007Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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A University of VA (Charlottesville) Pavillion GardenInspired by Thomas Jefferson's original designsPioneers of American Landscape Design (2000) is a book you need to know about and own if you are at all interested in garden history and preserving cultural and garden landscapes. It is one I turn to often to check on the background of the gardens and landscape creators about which I write.This

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A Williamsburg Perspective on Colonial Gardens is an article on the Colonial Williamsburg website. I return often for a "refresher course" and a good look at Colonial Revival and Colonial Restoration attitudes and ideas for Historic Garden Landscapes.If, like me, you are intrigued with the how and why of historic garden landscapes, I strongly encourage you to investigate Williamsburg's 62nd

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The House of the Seven GablesViewed across the raised beds of a Colonial Revival Garden. Nathaniel Hawthorne's BirthplaceMoved to the complex from another part of Salem.Retire Becket House (now the Gift Shop)Viewed across the raised beds of a Colonial Revival Garden Moved to the complex from another part of Salem. What does a

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August Sunflowers in Poland: North American native flowers glow in fields and market stalls.Sunflowers, North American natives, brighten Polish garden plots and yards. Eight planting and design tips ensure sunflower success in any temperate climate.I recently returned from a two-week vacation of cultural exploration mostly through the rural roads of Poland. Twenty-seven of us, organized by The

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Villa at Garnish Bay, IrelandAugust Poll at Landscaping at Suite101: Garden Landscapes of the World.Question: To which country would you like to travel so you can investigate, explore and learn about its garden landscapes? Let you imagination wander - consider that money is not an obstacle!

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The cold, dark and snowy weather in my area of New England stimulates outdoor decorating in both residential and commercial settings. Emphasis is on lighting during what is the "season of light" for most religions and beliefs. Outdoor and window-sill menorahs, gigantic plastic "snow globes," luminaria and traditional lighted garlands and wreathes combine to make magical scenes.How do you extend

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The Reverend John L. Fiala (1924-1990) died after more than 50 years of work with ornamental flowering crabapples, but before he witnessed publication of his book Flowering Crabapples: The Genus Malus in 1994. This book was his legacy to horticulturalists and those interested in landscape / garden design.A moving excerpt and dedication by the Rev. Fr. John L. Fiala to his readers may be found at

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Cynara spp.

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Colors ranging from deep purple to almost white herald the last days of autumn in old pastures and ditches here in New England. These are mostly New England asters (Aster novae-anglicae) along with some New York asters (Aster novi-belgii). Because they bloom in late autumn near the feast day of the holy angels Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, the British call them Michaelmas Daisies.Gertrude

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There is a new ornamental crabapple planting at the University of MA orchard in western MA. The planting forms part of the framework for a garden tribute to those who bought the orchard in 1962 and gave it to the University for fruit research. According to farm manager Joe Sincuk, the crabapple planting serves three functions:demonstration of the wide variety of crabapple cultivars,education

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Many years ago, I saw corn poppies, Papaver rhoeas growing in a wheat (ie corn) field in England. I was smitten then with the image of red flowers with the golden foliage of ripe wheat, and have since loved the way annual poppies, Papaver spp. look in landscapes. I tried with success to recreate this image by designing and planting a natural-appearing wildflower meadow for a friend.Since then

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Every landscape gardener likes to believe his or her garden is as pretty as a picture. On June 24, my garden was the setting for a series of bridal photos...this is a snapshot of the bridal party in front of mounds of Nepeta x faassenii 'Six Hills Giant.'You may read more about the garden on this special day at June Brides and Gardens

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Welcome to Cave Hills Gardens!This is the view from our east-facing deck in the early morning.It is one of my favorites of our country landscape.

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