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Oct.21.2010
Choosing one favorite garden this week was hard. I've loved many gardens in my life; I've always loved having plants and flowers around. At one apartment outside by the front door I had plants and flowers. When I was moving, several neighbors stopped me and said they were sorry I was moving, and...
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Oct.17.2010
It came as no surprise last week when, after we asked Red Roomers to blog about their favorite gardens, that we were presented with beautiful photos of flowering plants, ornamental hedges, and spreading trees. From sentimental memories of vegetable gardens tended in childhood to once-in-a-lifetime...
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Oct.15.2010
I was forty-nine years old when I created my first garden. There were to be more rewards than I could have ever imagined.
As a teenager, I took our beautiful garden for granted, knowing it was my Father's passion, not mine. On a weekend morning, he'd be in the yard, stopping only for a...
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Oct.15.2010
My grandfather could grow anything in the little 9x12 plot of earth in the back yard of our Brooklyn brownstone. He didn't believe in gardening books or fancy tools. This is what he believed in:
Never, ever throw away an old broom or mop: the wooden sticks make great tomato stakes
Tomato cages are...
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Oct.15.2010
My Favorite Garden
My favorite garden is in my backyard
How does it grow?
I don’t know.
Every fall without fail,
The soil I do till,
And then with bulbs I do fill.
When spring arrives lo and behold,
The most beautiful tulips always unfold.
That was easy you will hear me shout.
How does it grow...
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Oct.15.2010
Call me Digger, or Mulch Man. Do not call me Gardener. That is my wife’s territory. She is the one who reverently speaks the Latin names for plants. She is the one who talks in planting zones. She is the one who knows that a plant labeled “Full Sun” will burn up in one afternoon’s exposure to the...
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Oct.14.2010
I tried to pick my favorite garden for two days. Butchart Gardens in British Columbia? Missouri Botanical Garden? David C. Lam Asian Garden at the University of British Columbia or Abkhazi Garden in Victoria? What about my own garden…
I walked and walked through memories of my beloved gardens....
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Oct.14.2010
At the height of summer, I could always smell the Queen Mary Rose Garden before I could actually see it.
I wasn't really a serious runner during the four years my parents lived in London. I had started running in high school: just got up one morning around 5, put on shoes, and started jogging...
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Oct.14.2010
Several years ago I was fortunate to land in the West End of downtown Vancouver BC. My apartment is fairly spacious and I have a small view of the ocean which is heavenly - but it lacks a balcony on which to grow plants. This living in a big city is a new thing for me - I’ve always been a small-...
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Oct.14.2010
It wasn't much of a garden behind my home in Illinois: a few pea, bean, cherry tomato and cucumber plants. My garden was an oddity in a world filled of attached decks and swimming pools; an eccentricity that people couldn't comprehend my desire or need for. Despite my best efforts, weeds...
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