The Still Ecstasy of Winter
Scotch Pine & white Pine Each year when winter passes and the long awaited spring arrives I quickly forget how beautiful winter was. I have noticed that the only things I remember about the longest...
View ArticleSpring?
It’s been a battle all week for spring to take its rightful place, but winter will not back down. Here in upstate New York this is the norm. What was unusual was the 10 days in early March of 70 plus...
View ArticleGarden is asleep
Outside A light coating of snow reveals an intricate pattern on the old dry stone wall and Abies Concolor’s blue evergreen branches. This is the season of pattern. The colors outside are muted gray,...
View ArticleWinter – A Time to See Garden’s Architecture
Those of you who live in the northern hemisphere, experience a winter season pared to its bare essentials. And it is by no means all bad news. In this reduced landscape you have the advantage of seeing...
View ArticlePlowed Snow Damages Plants
Winter is hard enough on plants with all the freezing and thawing, and subzero weather, but we also have to make sure, when we design a garden, that our plants will be out of the way of the snow plow....
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