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Matthew Wilson’s Picks: Star Plants for Small Gardens
If you haven’t been keeping up with my Tweets, you might well ask: Who on earth is Matthew Wilson and why the heck should I care about his star plant picks for small gardens?
Well, firstly, he lives up to his nickname of Heathcliff of the Hedgerows (although the debate rages about whether he’s more Darcy-like. [...]
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I love New York City at Christmastime: the sidewalk vendors roasting chestnuts; skaters at Bryant Park; open-air craft booths that sprout up in Central Park — and now, the High Line.
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8. Private Gardens
The story tours of private gardens are a real treat of any Garden Writers Symposium, and the 2009 symposium in Raleigh was no exception. These tours offer a chance to see the best gardens of the region, to talk with the garden-makers and to discover new plants, plant combinations, and design ideas. Here’s [...]
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Matthew Wilson’s Picks: Star Plants for Small Gardens»
If you haven’t been keeping up with my Tweets, you might well ask: Who on earth is Matthew Wilson and why the heck should I care about his star plant picks for small gardens?
Well, firstly, he lives up to his nickname of Heathcliff of the Hedgerows (although the debate rages about whether he’s more Darcy-like. [...]
The Year of the Vegetable Gardening Book: City Farmer by Lorraine Johnson»
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12 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh»
12. Sir Walter
A few days into the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina, a fellow garden writer glanced up at the statue in front of the convention centre that we’d passed about a million times and realized it was Sir Walter Raleigh. I’m not sure what took us so long to make the connection between [...]
10 of 12 Great Things I Found at Raleigh»
10. Play Checks
My family, friends and most passersby who spy the newspaper on the front porch at 9 a.m. know that I’m not a morning person. So, when I dragged myself out of bed to attend the 8 a.m. keynote speech at the 2009 Garden Writers Symposium in Raleigh, I sincerely hoped it would be [...]