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Again, blame it on this long, drawn-out, cold, and snowy winter, but I am really digging into certain groups of plants and wanting to add more and more of them to the garden. One genus that we already have in abundance at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is Epimedium (commonly known as Horny Goat Weed, bishops […]
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I recently discovered a unique garden feature of the desert southwest – the ocotillo fence. The Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) is native to the desert southwest. It is a unique shrubby cactus-like plant (though it isn’t technically a cactus) that can be harvested for construction materials. Ocotillo is a striking deciduous shrub that can grow up […]
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I first discovered Viburnum bodnantense in the same place I discovered many of my favorite plants – Kew Gardens. I’ve told this story before (apologies if you’ve heard it!), but when I was in design school at The English Gardening School in London, we had to do an intensive study of a huge number […]
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Whenever anyone asks what is my favorite plant, of course, I can never answer. I usually have at least 3 or 4 plants that are my favorite on any given day. This could include the first plant I come across in the garden and the ones I read about at night. If push came to […]
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You should probably unsubscribe right now it your garden isn’t a bit overgrown or a mess. At least sometimes, or seasonally, or because you are “working on it”… We are all a hot mess. If you genuinely aren’t – this isn’t for you. (and also, can we even be friends?) Seriously. The pretense of garden […]
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Are you getting ready for spring? I took a walk around the garden today and was so pleased to see all the little nubs of plants poking through the ground and leaf buds ready to pop on the trees and shrubs. My seed orders arrived last week, and I realized that I had gone all-in on things […]
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