Check out these stunning Types of Geraniums that can be a great addition to both home and gardens. We have picked the best ones for you!
21.07.2023 - 22:39 / awaytogarden.com
THOUGH TICKET SALES are not open yet for most of them (soon!), I’ve heard from lots of you asking when my open garden tours, hands-on workshops and other such programs are happening in 2017. Here’s the list: July 22, evening: Moth NightFourth annual Moth Night, part of National Moth Week, in Taconic State Park, led by expert entomologists (co-hosted with Friends of Taconic State Park), 7 PM onward; ticket info.
Saturday August 19: Open Day and Native Plant Talks10-4 Garden Conservancy Open Day at my garden, plus plant sale with Broken Arrow Nursery
11 AM native plant lecture by Claudia West of North Creek Nursery, co-author of “Planting in a Post-Wild World” (click for ticket info)
1:30 native-plant gardening workshop with Claudia West (click for ticket info)
Saturday September 2: Mushroom WalkMushroom Walk with John Michelotti, president of the Mid- Hudson Mycological Association (co-hosted with Friends of Taconic State Park). Click for ticket info.
Saturday September 16: Workshops with Broken Arrow“Open-Day Plus” half-day workshops in my garden, co-taught with Broken Arrow Nursery’s Andy Brand (for those wanting more one-on-one than we can provide visitors at bigger Open Day events). Plus plant sale. Reserve a ticket now (space very limited).
past eventsSaturday March 25: Seed Events7th annual Seedy Saturday, a day of hands-on workshops at Turtle Tree biodynamic seed company at Camphill Village in Copake, NY, to benefit nonprofit Turtle Tree and Friends of Taconic State Park; tickets on sale and more details at this link.
Saturday May 6: Open Day, Plant Sale, Rock Gardening and Pollinator Garden Talks8:30 AM bird walk with Will Yandik in Copake Falls, NY (co-hosted by Friends of Taconic State Park). Reserve a ticket now
Check out these stunning Types of Geraniums that can be a great addition to both home and gardens. We have picked the best ones for you!
After salad crop failures in Spain and shortages of courgettes, broccoli and other ‘long distance’ vegetables gardeners could to worse than focus on traditional and non-traditional root crops.
If gardeners are exceptional people then buy them a copy of this book for Christmas. It contains 20 stories and profiles about encounters with gardeners and a day in their life to provide reading matter for dark garden-free evenings.
‘The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-century Short Fiction About Gardens and Gardeners’ edited by Michele Slung.
Botany is the science of plant life. In other descriptions it is the study of plant science or plant biology. A botanist is one who studies botany.
Modern tea gardens may seem to be a contradiction but since the 15th century the wabi tea ceremony has influenced the tea gardens purpose and design. Originally when tea plants (Camellia sensi) were introduced into Japan from China in the 6th century they were the prerogative of the ruling classes and used expensive ingredients and equipment.
This is a series of 3 photographs of my favourite cottage garden on Main Street Menston. Late summer each year will see me leaning over the Yorkshire stone wall to admire the ‘gaudy’ collection of flowers that create one enormous display.
I will use Shangri-la as an all encompassing name for spiritually based gardens and areas of harmonious natural beauty stealing a name from James Hilton in his novel Lost Horizon.
Most people know K.I.S.S. is an acronym for Keep It Simple Silly (or something very similar). K.I.S.S. is great because you can apply it to just about any situation in life. Horticulture is no different. Sure, some horticultural pursuits, like growing certain exotic ornamental plants, fruits and vegetables, or houseplants, are complicated. But most people can save themselves a lot of time, money, and headaches by just sticking to the basics.
FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE AREA, meaning the Hudson Valley of New York State or thereabouts, these spring events here in the garden and elsewhere may be of interest: Saturday March 14, Spring Garden Day, Cornell Cooperative Extension of Rensselaer County. (518) 272-4210. This popular, day-long annual event in Troy, New York, includes a choice of classes, from growing orchids at home to successful vegetable gardening.
THE FROGBOYS CAN’T BELIEVE IT, EITHER: Another warm-weather season is drawing to a close, and with it the “everybody into the pool” mindset that pretty much sums it up around here will be traded for something involving snowsuits, not swimsuits. Everywhere I look this week, there’s a frogboy on the edge of the colder reality ahead.
M AY IS MADNESS. I have already said that in the monthly chores column. But it’s madness otherwise, too: garden tours to prep for; workshops I’m giving with friends; a garden contest I’m judging (as in, free prizes!); a sister in the news to brag about…and oh, I need your help with the Urgent Garden Question Forums here, too.