For my story in the Real Estate section on whether a garden can sell a house (link to earlier post this week), I made a welcome visit to Pepe and John Maynard’s garden in Bedford earlier this month.

It’s one of my favorite gardens in the Hudson Valley, because Pepe has such a great eye and [...]

Perennials: Continue planting bulbs as long as weather permits. Pick the last roses of the season. Hill up soil around your roses so that it covers the graft area, to prevent winter kill.

Flowers: Replace flowering plants in window boxes and containers with evergreen branches and berries. The containers should be freeze proof.

Vegetables and fruits: Continue [...]

email from Wave Hill:

“Harvest Centerpiece Garden Workshop
Saturday, November 21, 1PM
Create a Wave Hill-inspired centerpiece for your table that will set the mood for giving thanks for the bounties of the harvest. Arrange fresh greens, cones, fruit and vines around a fragrant beeswax  candle. Assistant Director of Public Programs Laurel Rimmer leads this workshop, providing [...]

From Mary Prenon at Thompson Bender:

Hudson Valley Tourism Launches Newly Re-designed Website That Makes Trip-Planning Easier Than Ever!

Worldwide visitors to the Hudson Valley now have a one-stop website that takes them wherever they want to go in one of the most scenic areas of New York State. Hudson [...]

Nov. 21
Hopewell Junction: Hopewell Garden Club Meeting. Lynn Eriksen, perennial manager at Sabellico Greenhouse and Florist, will lead a workshop on forcing bulbs. Participants will receive a kit for forcing paperwhites, with some extra bulbs available for purchase. Reservations. $7. 10 a.m. East Fishkill Community Library, 348 Route 376.  845-221-9943.

Dec. 8
White Plains: Greater Westchester Orchid [...]

Great Bedford garden, 4-bedroom contemporary hit the market for $2.4 million

Can a great garden sell a house in Bedford? Pepe and John Maynard certainly hope so.

For the last 30 years, they’ve been tending an 8-acre garden that’s considered one of the best private gardens in the Hudson Valley. But now that they’re moving to Massachusetts [...]

I had a family wedding in Durham, NC, last weekend and of course made a visit to the Sarah P. Duke Gardens near the West Campus at Duke.

They were designed in the 1930s by Ellen Biddle Shipman, who was designing the Longue Vue estate in New Orleans about the same time. She did several gardens [...]

From the PR folks at White Flower Farm:
A FIRST LOOK AT WHITE FLOWER FARM’S FAVORITE SPRING 2010 PLANTS

“Raking season may be just about over, but the gardeners at White Flower Farm (www.whiteflowerfarm.com) already have their eyes on spring. They have been busy selecting and growing the best and newest plants for the spring planting season. [...]

I’m still putting my garden to bed for winter — and I’m already looking forward to picking plants for next spring. I highly recommend a new sweet potato vine from Proven Winners called ‘Midnight Lace.’

Before you say that the sweet potato vine is tired and overused, hear me out. ‘Midnight Lace’ is different. First of [...]

Ask the master gardeners

Q: My child wants to grow plants from pits. What is a good pit to use for such a project?

A: An easy and rewarding project is to grow an avocado plant from its pit.
The avocado, Persea gratissima or Persea americana, is a fruit originally from South America that later migrated to Mexico. [...]