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The Self-Taught Gardener: The art of perspective
A exhibition about “Power and Beauty in China’s Last Dynasty” seem like a funny place to learn about placement and perspective in the garden. But, maybe not.
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With spring finally here and summer approaching we offer you properties with beautiful lawns and gardens from Stone House Properties, Suzann Ward of Barnbrook Realty, Berkshire Property Agents, and Mary Jane White of Cohen+White Associates.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The lineup
The only time plants look good set in tightly spaced rows in the garden is in an allée of trees, or in the vegetable or cutting garden. Or perhaps in Victorian bedding schemes at historic houses.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Scents and sensibility
My being on the road quite a bit this year in the peak of spring may have left my garden in disarray, but it has given me a new regard for an old garden favorite.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The rules of division
Spring divisions, while not necessarily good for the U.S. Senate, are very good for the garden. Spring is the ideal time to divide and transplant many perennials, and a great time to create more plants.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Making an entrance
Good entrances provide visitors a clear path forward that helps the story of the garden unfold, perhaps, along the way, revealing the nature of the character who created them.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Once more to the lake
This simplicity of spirit is at the heart of what I love about country living and what I occasionally fear is lacking in our present-day approach to rural life.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Winter’s call
A New Year’s Eve walk through the Olbrich Botanical Garden in Madison, Wisc., made me realize that buds, fruits, and bark can draw us into the winter landscape and keep us outdoors in the depths of the season.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Preparing for the next term
Cool season weeds are the bane of a gardener’s existence and, if left in place, easily wreak havoc in the garden. I liken them to John Podesta or Governor Chris Christie.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Fields of Heaven
Gardens for me have always served as a reminder of man’s small role in the hierarchy of the universe.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Living on air
My garden will grow well with the soil that I was given, as my plants simply take in the air around them and get most of what they need.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Back-seat gardeners
Gardeners rarely think about sitting down… but there is another vantage point from which to view and observe our gardens.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Putting down roots
An understanding of time and maturation is at the center of the artful selection and placement of trees. There are wonderful species and varieties for almost every situation.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The New Edwardians
Gardening is in the process of evolving and being transformed into something that requires a level of care and nursing different from the highly manicured beds and borders.
NATURE’S TURN: Awakening from dormancy
As spring begins, I have a renewed appreciation for our community of growers, teachers, students and supporters of ecological relationships with the Earth.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The most ruthless sport
Gardening is not for the faint of heart – it is a ruthless sport that involves everything from Darwinian survival-of-the-fittest standards for selecting plants to the willingness to take out something that isn’t working.
The Self-Taught Gardener: The Garden Wall — selecting non-natives that belong here
America’s strength comes from immigration and closing our doors to those who have contributed to a diverse economy and culture throughout our history is shortsighted. And I think the same principles apply to gardening.
The Self-Taught Gardener: Inspiration knows no borders
In an age of appropriation, we look at what other gardeners are doing not merely to mimic but to find a way to express ourselves.
NATURE’S TURN: Seeds to eat, seeds to grow
Many gardeners and farmers have already procured their seeds for the 2016 growing season. Others of us have yet to inventory the seeds we have.
NATURE”S TURN: Winter’s waffle, rustic tasks and pastimes
I’ve awoken to the realization that this is a different kind of December. What are the consequences of the abnormally warm temperatures?
NATURE’S TURN: The giving Earth, a Thanksgiving offering
The care we give the land in preparation for winter is an offering towards sustaining its vigor.
BOB GRAY: Farewell(s) to summer
In its finality, August, by my lights, lives a double life: a brazen, wilting day at first, a day as crisp as October the next.
NATURE’S TURN: Transitions! Store the season’s food, and flourish
Our experience of the landscape is a series of primal sensory contacts. While working around zucchini and yellow squash bushes as well as winter squashes and pumpkins, I am surprised by the fragrance surrounding their brilliant yellow trumpet flowers.
GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK: A kale, black-eyed Susan and gladiola bike ride
I love how Alford has managed to maintain its identity, call it cachet, since the 18th century. With its perfectly proportioned, white steepled church, clapboard town hall and one room school house, it appears set in a time capsule.
NATURE’S TURN: Hot weather garden, sky-high flowers, succulent food
I recommend the marsh mallow, Althaea officinalis, as a trouble free perennial that has been cultivated since ancient times as a culinary and medicinal herb.
NATURE’S TURN: The garden flourishes, ripens, brims over
July 20 – August 2, 2015 Mt. Washington — Summer is ripening everywhere – gardens, farms and the softly rounded and arrestingly rugged Berkshire and Taconic ranges are lush with gathered sunlight in the shape of leaves, flowers and fruits. From elderberry bushes to sweet corn, towering hickory trees to underground garlic bulbs, food is
Feeding the Berkshires year round — one front lawn garden bed at a time
The idea is to have a year round source of fresh food. Greenagers comes back in the fall, does a seasonal planting, and puts up hoops and plastic, turning it into a greenhouse.
NATURE’S TURN: Straddling the seasons on Memorial Day weekend
Proceed with planting Cosmic Red Carrots, Rainbow Swiss Chard, colorful radishes, purple potatoes and the varied cabbage family – kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cabbage. If all vegetable garden spaces are not yet prepared, sow extra seed in beds that are ready so that seedlings may be moved into spacious ground later.