Garden Rant: Championing natives—worldwide – Annotated

Monty Don’s Around the World in 80 Gardens

Don had an epiphany of sorts after doing the series—not a terribly surprising one. This is what he says in a recent interview with the Daily Mail: “Gardening with indigenous plants and working with nature by tweaking it is so much more interesting [...]

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Rural Intelligence | The Online News Source for Dutchess County & Columbia County, New York – Litchfield County, Connecticut – Berkshire County, Massachusetts | Reality Check: Commonweal Annotated

Info on Gifford Garden in Millbrook, NY here
Re The Mount:
more than 100 people attended a public forum on the future of The Mount, the Edith Wharton Estate [...]

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Mitigation Banking: Benefits of Mitigation Banking
 

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Pruned: Landscape Hints Annotated

Discovered recently are these digitized before-and-after landscape illustrations of Humphry Repton, the prolific and influential English landscape designer of the 18th and 19th centuries, taken from what must be the only complete online facsimile of his important texts.

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A quick word about these two images, for they are hilarious. The landscape [...]

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Garden Rant: For Carbon-Neutral Buildings, Fix that Landscape! Annotated
LEED ratings for eco-friendliness in new buildings are all the rage in the construction world. The acronym stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design and developers are suddenly scrambling to get them because they add so much to the selling price of both commercial and [...]

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