“Uncontrollable changes in a garden are inevitable and wonderful opportunities,” says Donald Pell, a landscape designer in Chester County, Pennsylvania. To prove this is true, Donald and his associates created an incredible series ofnaturalistic gardens around their studio. This landscape has become an invaluable laboratory where Donald and his team learn from failures and from the many years of watching this landscape design evolve. “Establishing a garden based on an initial plan (perhaps one even scribbled on paper) is a great place to start, but as plants, the setting, conditions, our knowledge, and our tastes change, so should our designs,” Donald says.
coping with extreme weather, with cornell’s daniel weitoish
10.08.2024 - 12:25 / awaytogarden.com
I SUSPECT I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden, wondering what will bloom when and when to do what. And most of all, wondering what madness is coming next.
I talked about managing our gardens and especially its longest-lived residents, our trees, in changing times with Daniel Weitoish, the Arboriculture Supervisor at Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, New York, where he and his colleagues care for the woody plants at the 30-acre botanic garden, plus a 100-acre arboretum and about 3,600 acres of natural areas.
Like plant people everywhere, they’ve been feeling their way through the impacts of a shifting climate and extreme weather events, and now that winters are somewhat milder, even experimenting with adding some new plants to the collection.
Read along as you listen to the Aug. 12, 2024 edition of my public-radio show and podcast using the player below. You can subscribe to all future editions on Apple Podcasts (iTunes) or Spotify (and browse my archive of podcasts here).
extreme-weather tactics, with daniel weitoish
Margaret Roach: After I talked to you for a recent “New York Times” garden column, I have to say, I felt relieved in a way that there’s that sort of brotherhood feeling or whatever [laughter], that camaraderie, that even at your level at the botanic gardens, you guys are also having to figure your way through. And I think that’s good for other gardeners listening to hear. It feels a little unfamiliar out there at the moment.
What’s the biggest thing there over the last couple of seasons and so forth, is it the change in rain patterns or is it heat or what’s the thing for you at Cornell up in
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