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Bill Cary’s idea of a good weekend is to dig in a few dozen bulbs, turn the compost pile, pull weeds for a couple of hours and fill the car twice with
new annuals from the nursery. He grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8
acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn’t have more meadow and less lawn.
E-mail Bill Cary at wcary@lohud.com
Everyone seems to agree that this is the best year yet for the tree peonies in Rockefeller State Park Preserve in Pocantico Hills.
Mark Vergari, one of our best photographers, and I paid them a visit yesterday morning for an article for the paper and a TV segment on RNN cable. I took photos, too, but [...]
Looks like the rain will end today — still time this weekend for lots of garden chores. Here’s our weekly Do It Now column from Susan Henry.
Perennials
Plant chrysanthemum cuttings, Japanese anemones and asters for fall bloom.
Here’s are weekly garden calendar. Note the three good plant sales on Saturday. And on Sunday, Copamong Pond is a wonderful 12-acre woodland garden around a 12-acre pond. I’ve seen it twice.
May 17
Somers: Ninth District of the Federated Garden Clubs of New York State Standard Flower Show. Theme: “Welcome Aboard the Hogwarts Express. Free. [...]From our weekly Ask the Master Gardeners column:
Q: I knew I should have but didn’t prune in March or early April. Now it’s May. What should I do?
A: First, relax and give up the guilt. Gardening should bring you pleasure. Nature is strong and forgiving, especially of neglect.
Imitate nature’s pruning, accomplished through the action of [...]
Yvonne Lynn emailed to let me know about her garden club’s upcoming show:
“The Morsemere Garden Club presents “Let’s Celebrate,” a standard flower show, on Monday, June 2, 2008 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm at the Philipse Manor Hall, 29 Warburton Avenue, Yonkers, NY. Open to the public and free of charge.”
And from Christina [...]
For some reason I got an invite to a deer-resistant gardening talk and demo at Cambria Nursery in Calif. in November.
No thanks, a bit far. But I thought I’d share the press release because the speaker, Shana McCormick, has some great tips for home gardeners.
There’s a plant list at the end here, but be warned [...]
Blue Rock School of West Nyack is hosting a tour of seven fully renovated homes near the Hudson in Upper Nyack on Saturday.
Along with gardening stuff, I also write home and real estate articles for the paper. Here’s a link to a piece in today’s paper on this house tour. At least two of the [...]
I inherited a few ever-expanding patches of day lilies. Like much of our old chicken farm, they were so covered with weeds, brush and collapsed fencing that I could hardly find them.
After many years of weeding and clearing, these swaths of day lilies have come along quite nicely. Here’s a look from last July.
But as [...]
George Morrison, a master gardener from Briarcliff Manor, emailed about a field trip he just made to Mount Cuba Center in Delaware.
He sent along lots of photos, too. They sure make me want to make a spring visit!
Here’s a link to the Web site, for more info.
Take it away George:
“I’d like to share some photos [...]
Since the 1950s, Brooklyn Botanic Garden has been crossing magnolia varieties to produce new and unusual cultivars. Henriette Suhr has several of them in her Chappaqua garden.
One of the most unusual has gorgeous yellow blooms with a flush of plum at its base.
It’s named in honor of Judy Zuk, the longtime president of the Botanic [...]
Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
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