In the Garden - A Garden Where Foliage Eclipses Flowers - NYTimes.com

ANYTHING GOES Nancy Ondra’s garden in Pennsburg, Penn.

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In the Garden - An Executive’s 2nd Act - Tending an Upstate Oasis - NYTimes.com

By ANNE RAVER
Published: June 19, 2008

COPAKE FALLS, N.Y.

MY friend Suzanne and I headed out of the city last week for a leisurely wallow in an upstate garden: Margaret Roach’s personal paradise in the […]

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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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Wildflower Week in New York City? : TreeHugger

by Bonnie Hulkower on 05. 7.08

At Union Square this past Sunday, a quizzical look appeared on many New Yorkers’ faces when they encountered volunteers publicizing the 1st New York City Wildflower Week. Wildflower Week started on May 3rd and continues until May 10th, with evening lectures, […]

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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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