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Sustainable, low maintenance garden design, using perennials suited to the existing site and environment, to create a visually stimulating, romantic garden friendly to native plants and wildlife
- Added on: Jul 11th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: federaltwist
- Listed in: Home and Garden Green
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Recent Posts
First Snow
First snow this year arrived yesterday, December 5. A heavy, wet snow flattened my perennial prairie. Some of the grasses will rise again, once the ice melts, but I think I like the openness of a flat garden. Time for a change.The morning after ...&n...
Mississippi Delta Landscape: a Reading
(These photos are very wide. Click to see the full panoramic view.)The Mississippi Delta, so the saying goes, begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg, a distance of some 200 miles. It is really an allu...
House and Garden in Delta
Making a garden "in tune with nature" means simply planting appropriate to place. But place can mean more than the physical environment. Consideration of metaphorical associations with history, geology, and culture add depth and richness to the exper...
Christmas Fern on Stompf Tavern Road
Christmas Fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) is an especially prolific native plant in our woods. Last weekend, driving down Stompf Tavern Road, an unpaved 18th century path, now road, that drops swiftly down to the Delaware from our perch on a ridge ...
Garden Diary: October 24, a Day of Misting Rain
The diminished color of this season is fading fast. All the trees will soon be bare.The sitting area overlooking the garden, leaf-strewn now. Kiringeshoma palmata, on right, is still green.Moving out into the garden, which is starting to fall apart ....
Death and Happy Talk
A dreary few days of rain is doing its bit to spoil what's left of melancholy autumn. The sun will certainly come out again and play across the dying garden, reviving opportunity for more uplifting views of autumn brew shot through with glittering sh...
