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A Drone’s-Eye View Of My Yard

By Kathy Purdy February 26, 2022 – Posted in: New Residence, New Gardens My son has a drone digital digicam and captured these images of our dwelling and panorama in January. It’s on a regular basis good to get a particular view of the yard. I’ve numbered quite a few…

Mud Season Pruning Chores

Pruning is the one gardening chore you’ll be able to do in mud season, because of your vegetation (and the weeds!) are nonetheless frozen throughout the ground. It’s an unbelievable excuse to get exterior and do one factor–exact gardening! The local weather could also be very unsettled all through mud…

January Thaw Stroll-About

The local weather’s been crazy, to put it mildly. I do know a number of the nation has endured comparable: a thaw the week sooner than Christmas, a sudden drop to unseasonably frigid temperatures, and (as quickly as all people’s trip plans have been screwed up) a return to unseasonably…

Sissinghurst Fortress Yard Half II

There could also be lots further to Sissinghurst Fortress Yard than I can pretty cowl. How does one even scratch the ground in only a few phrases? Between my first publish from remaining week and this, Half II, I hope to on the very least doc our go to on a…

Let’s Go: Good Dixter Half I

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Let’s Go: Good Dixter Half II

This place haunts my objectives. Truly. Honest to goodness unconscious objectives. I wake feeling joyful. I don’t suppose that has occurred sooner than, i.e., dreaming of gardens I’ve visited. What alchemy is at work, I am questioning? Along with the unconscious kind, I’ve waking objectives when working in my very…

December Yard

The phrase of the month is: Rain. Oy, it has been moist this main half of December with 8.01 inches inside the first 9 days. There was a dry-ish second in the middle of all of it as soon as I managed to maneuver out with my digicam for a…

Cistus Nursery

I prefer to play outside with my digital digital camera. Simply currently I’ve been taking footage for our newly revamped web page at Cistus Nursery; uncover the web page proper right here! Bridget has been laborious at work on the revamp, and I really feel the web page seems fabulous. I…

2023: The Yr in Consider

Proper right here we’re, embarking on 2024 stuffed with hope and promise. The yard does that, affords one hope and promise whatever the grim data we see on our screens. I’m going to take a yard any day over a cellphone or laptop computer, nevertheless nonetheless, it’s a time of…

Take 5: Forgiving Perennials for Shade

Inside the ever-evolving look for highly effective crops in our troublesome local weather extremes, it’s time to try a few shade perennials that endure 12 months after 12 months in my less-than-ideal circumstances. I’ve many fir timber that suck up plenty of the encompassing water, so to reside proper right…

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Oh, February

Oh, February, you tease me with faux spring. Then you definately definately throw miserable chilly, moist local weather, even snow showers, my means. Excessive-quality. Time to camp out inside the greenhouse, my blissful place I identify my halfway dwelling. Halfway between being inside on a winter’s day and outdoor on…

March

My thoughts declares that nothing is happening throughout the yard throughout the chilly, moist, dank days of March. Ah, nonetheless the thoughts can lie. After taking a pair hundred footage this weekend I see that. Buds are swelling, bees are out, birds are amassing nesting provides and it really and…

Shade Yard in Early April

Early spring is among the greatest season for the shade yard. Additionally it is the season I almost definitely lose buddies . . . don’t take it personally, people, I’m inside the yard. It’s busy go-go time for me and I apologize prematurely for vanishing and by no means returning…