“Eden Reconsidered”
An Appreciation of the Brine Garden
by Marilyn Bethany

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Creating Landscapes That Balance Beauty and Sustainability - NYTimes.com

With its combination of scrupulous planting, formal as opposed to naturalistic design elements, and responsiveness to the clients’ desires — even when they strayed from strict conservationism — the Hillan-Robertson project is typical of an emerging movement in environmentally conscious landscape and garden design.
Over the past five […]

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The Elizabethan Snail Mount

The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning.
Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and alleys, enough for […]

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More than 500 kinds of wildflowers at Sheffield site - Berkshire Eagle Online

By Jessica Willis, Berkshire Eagle Staff

Article Last Updated: 05/06/2008 03:21:35 AM EDT

SHEFFIELD — Springtime at Bartholomew’s Cobble means a riot of wildflowers in bloom: Red-and-white trillium. Deep magenta columbine. Shiny yellow trout lilies. The delicate […]

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Moss Makes a No-Care Lawn - New York Times

DEEP GREEN David Benner is an advocate of what he calls “the moss approach” to lawn maintenance.

 
By JANCEE DUNN
Published: May 1, 2008

Solebury, Pa.

Moss, which grows fast and hugs the ground, prevents soil erosion. Its density repels weeds. Deer do not snack on it. It can be walked […]

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