Turning Toward the Light
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Country & Rural Garden News (13)Newspapers (6)Other Gardening News (A-J) (29)Other Gardening News (K-Z) (30)A personal journal of gardening in the Boston area, drawing on my years of experience as an amateur gardener, training as a landscape designer, and experiences as a volunteer at the New England Wild Flower Society's native plant garden, Garden in the Woods. Your comments are welcomed. 31 Dec 69 MAD HORSE One of the keys to identifying trees in the winter is to look at the branching pattern. Most trees have branches that alternate along the stem, but this Paperbark Maple is a great example of the rarer opposite branching pattern... 31 Dec 69 Walking Toward the Light Someone has invented a plant pot that senses its environment and walks into the sunlight.... 31 Dec 69 Touring the garden Last year, I took some friends on a tour of Garden in the Woods. One of the visitors took some great pictures, and I've uploaded them into my first .Mac photo album. It was particularly interesting for me to see... 31 Dec 69 Japanese Friendship Garden, San Jose CA A few weeks ago I had the chance to escape cold and snowy Boston to spend a few days in warm, sunny, San Jose, California. One of the gardens we visited there was the Japanese Friendship Garden, in Kelley Park... 31 Dec 69 Great new "Pollination" stamps I went to the Post Office today and found these great new Pollination stamps. From the press release: Depicted on the Pollination stamps are four wildflowers and four pollinators. The common and scientific names of the featured flowers are purple... 31 Dec 69 Snapshots of Colorado I recently spent about a week in Colorado, so I'd like to share some pictures of the various types of Colorado flora I encountered. Colorado Springs Xeriscape Garden One of the issues of gardening in Colorado is the low level... 31 Dec 69 Baby ducks! In my previous posts about the Art Goes Wild exhibit at Garden in the Woods, I mentioned that a mother duck was nesting on one of the floating islands. I even tried to take a video of her, but she...... 31 Dec 69 Through the garden with Rolf A few days ago, the Garden in the Woods guides were treated to a tour through the garden with Horticulturalist Rolf Schilling. He gave us a torrent of information about the Art Goes Wild exhibit and some of the new... 31 Dec 69 Mother's Day at Tower Hill These are photos from the Tower Hill Botanic Garden, taken by my friend Alexis Layton during our visit there on Mother's Day, 2007. It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon, so there were quite a number of people there, many of... 31 Dec 69 You Lose Some, Part 2 This is a picture of me taking a picture of the Sweet Autumn Clematis that was happily climbing up the side of my garden shed last fall. This spring, not so much. The woody vines are totally bare without a...
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