Category Archives: garden visit

Foliage Follow-Up November 2010

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Denise

Hosted by Pam at Digging, where we’re regularly treated to the best in Austin, Texas gardens. I have to confess that it’s not just fall that brings leaves into prominence in my garden. Though I give it my best shot, … Continue reading →

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POTUS Gives State Tour of White House Vegetable Garden

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Denise

President Barack Obama leads Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, center, and Vice President Joe Biden on a tour of the White House Kitchen Garden following their meeting in the Oval Office, July 1, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete … Continue reading →

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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Denise

November 2010, hosted by Carol at May Dreams Gardens. I’ve just scanned a few of the entries so far, but it’s clear November is not at all dreary for many all over the world. What I’m most excited about this … Continue reading →

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Longwood Gardens Miscellany

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Denise

Such an awful moment, when a recent vacation begins to drift off into the mists of long ago and far away. Only a couple weeks ago, but the travel mojo you came home with is already smothered under to-do lists. … Continue reading →

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Dustin’s Ballsy Totems

Posted on November 7, 2010 by Denise

These stacked spheres are currently the stony exclamation points embellishing Dustin Gimbel’s Southern California garden/design laboratory/plant nursery. Dustin has described his fascination with the geologic anomaly of concretions on his blog non-secateur and how his obsession with them led him … Continue reading →

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Fall Salvias at Longwood Gardens

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Denise

Longwood was full of “firsts” for me: My first Dutch Elm, the last lone sentinel remaining of a row of elm destroyed by Dutch Elm disease. My first Cornus kousa. My first Copper Beech, Fagus sylvatica. But amongst all these … Continue reading →

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Longwood Gardens

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Denise

Longwood Gardens is vast, over 1,050 acres, and also very old. From Wikipedia: “What is now Longwood Gardens was originally purchased from William Penn in 1700 by a fellow Quaker named George Peirce (1646-1734). Although it started as a working … Continue reading →

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Dutch Wave Breaks Over New Amsterdam

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Denise

At the Battery, Piet Oudolf has written another glorious fall chapter to the story of the renaissance of urban gardens in New York City. Here at the Battery Bosque, the emphatic sweep of plants is at times even more dramatic … Continue reading →

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The High Line in Autumn

Posted on October 25, 2010 by Denise

Crocus sativus, the saffron crocus I first became intrigued by the High Line when it was in its derelict state. I’d read a New York Times piece about an abandoned elevated railway in Manhattan, its purpose as a rail line … Continue reading →

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On the Evening of October 3, 2010

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Denise

A single brugmansia bloom dangled while Evie groomed. The rest of the unopened buds were jettisoned in response to high temperatures. That same evening, the ‘Siam Ruby’ banana unfurled an enormous solar panel, daring the sun to do its worst. … Continue reading →

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