Month: May 2015

  • Spring Showers & Bits of Maytime Beauty

     Silverbell Blossoms, Scattered Upon the Stone Terrace (Halesia tetraptera) Soft, moist air, sweet perfume and lush color everywhere; how I love rainy, May days in the garden. Raindrops make everything more beautiful . . .  Resettling plants and soil after wintertime damage from rodents is hardly a chore when surrounded by blossoming Lily-of-the-Valley and Daphne […]

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  • Soft, Slow Mornings 

     Slowly Down the Garden Path After a very chilly April, May arrived and turned up the heat. Temperatures here shot up to the mid-eighties and nary a raindrop fell. Unpredictable is what we call typical, here in New England. My garden design schedule is purposefully light this year. I have but a few projects on […]

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