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Plant to know: Birchleaf spirea

November 9, 2018

More than once I’ve written here about the misconceptions I had about spirea. For a time it was, to me, the most boring of shrubs, the least interesting of what I call the “landscaper’s trio”… [Continue Reading]

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THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO GUIDE TO PRUNING

October 18, 2017

To my knowledge there is no garden task that strikes fear into the heart of gardeners so much as pruning. By my estimation, the two most likely explanations for this are: We’ve all been scolded… [Continue Reading]

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CRAZY TIME IN THE GARDEN + FRIDAY FINDS

May 26, 2017

We’ve officially hit the height of Holy Crap There’s a Lot to Do in the Garden season. I’ve been taking it chunk by chunk, trying to completely finish one area before starting on another. The… [Continue Reading]

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Garden

EXTENDING FALL COLOR

November 3, 2016

There’s been no sign of frost here and none in the forecast through the weekend. Surely it will happen next week. The delayed onset of cold weather is just fine with me (although I fear… [Continue Reading]

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