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</div>I had this moment yesterday when I was tired and digging dahlias and planting bulbs and feeling the weariness of the long, long season, when I looked up and my heart did a little extra skip beat. And this view caught me by surprise, I never look at this garden from this angle, and the morning light was glaring through the feathertop flowers of the Pennisetum villosum, catching the bronzy colors of the cannas against the glossy green box and then the mighty out-of-place amazing castor bean, towering above me was just so epic and weird. And I thought even with my best (or random) intentions to what I am planting, why and how, the plants will always surprise me and often surpass my wildest dreams.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiO5iW-iKORCJ4zz8VGUzlQSgyksMimutyaj6XrxZ4oxiCZdslgqCRV7zfZpj2S1E7ktoP0OFgF1-WZAsxkmFO2RODiXiS-pvZs50FfrPvodZDmq5BY1lxLxKirv2zAniE_KM4agSbML0w/s2048/IMG_3336.HEIC" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiO5iW-iKORCJ4zz8VGUzlQSgyksMimutyaj6XrxZ4oxiCZdslgqCRV7zfZpj2S1E7ktoP0OFgF1-WZAsxkmFO2RODiXiS-pvZs50FfrPvodZDmq5BY1lxLxKirv2zAniE_KM4agSbML0w/s600/IMG_3336.HEIC" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">And I am driving off the road for mums right now. Like this one Chrysanthemum 'Gethesamane Moonlight,' originally from Plant Delights. This has been extremely hardy and has spread to be an enormous clump- this plant doesn't get going until October, which is just fine by me. She's glowing in daylight.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkP50oFLhCdb6eZjy51hIHoTRiE_AJzHBWMHWI_EBMStpSXYZ8asdEoHmpJf25dFkK-X1W38XCxvM7sFTOOsGO61MHEaQ_sJJYj_0JvrZnZBlPWSPOyhKm8ICERQLo06zpk6EKTf2utIP/s2048/IMG_3340.HEIC" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtkP50oFLhCdb6eZjy51hIHoTRiE_AJzHBWMHWI_EBMStpSXYZ8asdEoHmpJf25dFkK-X1W38XCxvM7sFTOOsGO61MHEaQ_sJJYj_0JvrZnZBlPWSPOyhKm8ICERQLo06zpk6EKTf2utIP/s600/IMG_3340.HEIC" /></a>Salvia 'Big Blue' is one of the best annuals, chunky and deep violet blue and tall! Thank you Emily for introducing me to this gem.</div>
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<br />I was not a fan of the the Dahlia 'Coltness Hybrids' that I grew from seed this year (too short, too pastel, too compact), but as I was digging them up I decided to keep particular one, yellow with peachy pink blush. This one specimen bloomed well and has a nice shape to the petals. It spurred some discussion about what makes a plant good anyway...one of the best discussions to have, especially when tired!</div>
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This is the time of year when I love the gardens the most. First of all, the expectations are low. No one is expecting the gardens to be fabulous. Everything that is dead is easily forgiven, and usually quite beautiful with its dried out stalk and seed head, and only occasionally offensively mushy and rotten or something. But no one is expecting flowers. And so the lush flowers of late October are much more appreciated now then they ever would be in high summer. Nastursiums are peaking. Never have they looked better, in the cool crisp air, dry, pristine, and unencumbered- exactly right for this time of year. And when I see them entangled in evergreens, traveling inwards and emerging through gaps and spilling flowers forth, I am brought back to England, specifically to Beth Chatto's when I fell in love with the red <i>Tropaeolum speciosa </i>scrambling through a weighty evergreen tree. At least that's how I remember it.</div>
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Today I went to cut back a garden and I couldn't do it. It's a classic problem in October. After frost it is time to pull the annuals and put the gardens to rest (when not digging, planting, or planting bulbs). And then I show up and it still looks like this. It might even be at its very best, at its absolute fullest and most rosy-bronze, with the best lines, sticks and seed heads and still so many flowers. I have to ask myself, 'Would you rather cut this garden back with spitting snow in 30 degrees weather?' If the answer is yes, then I have to leave it for another day- when it probably will be spitting rain and snowing and I will curse my past self.</div>
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And this grass- when it starts to bloom with that late afternoon back light illuminating the soft fluffy flowers- I keep thinking it is alive somehow, covered in hundreds of wooly caterpillars. The colors too, it is bronze pink orange, but dusky too, with gray and mauve. I can never capture the way it looks and certainly not the way it makes me feel. </div>
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I have been digging around in the archives and came up with some great photos of a trip I took to see The World Garden at Lullingstone Castle in Kent, England. The garden is arranged by continent, planted with flora indigenous to each place. It is a plant collectors garden, but really beautifully arranged, not in the standard plant, place, plant, place kind of way; it felt much more meandering, intermingled, and wild. It is the collection and design of Tom Hart Dyke, a plant hunter to the max, who even survived a kidnapping while on an expedition through the Darien Gap in Panama. While held captive, Tom Hart Dyke dreamed up his World Garden scheme. After his release he settled back at his family home (of 20 generations) at Lullingston Castle and started to layout the garden.</div>
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I happened to be in England during a heat wave, which is apparently not normal, and so the day was very hot. The garden is walled in too, which helps give heat loving plants a better chance at thriving and surviving the typically mild and wet climate of England. It was impressive to see how many desert type plants seemed to thrive in The World Garden. It is a gardener's enigma to always be pushing zones and climates, and inspiring to see what can be made to survive by manipulating soil structure, drainage, and protection. </div>
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The frothy white blooms belong to <i>Buddleja loricata</i>, or the South African Butterfly Bush. I am normally not a huge fan of the butterfly bush, but this one was stunning. It was covered in open and airy gray-white blooms and each floret had a small yellow center. Planted en masse, it was just beautiful. Unfortunately for me it is hardy to zone 7, so I have no plans to plant it here in Vermont. </div>
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There was a glasshouse with a few different micro ecosystems. Here a gorgeous cactus in bloom and below the tallest Echium I have ever seen, reaching all the way to the ceiling. I regret not photographing the castle itself- it is dreamy- as well as the surrounding countryside. The place is surrounded by open fields and forests and there is a walking path that runs along a stream for quite a long way. It is a place that you could spend an entire day wandering the gardens and hillsides. <br />
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In September my good gardening friend, Emma, and I visited Innisfree garden in Millbrook, New York. The weather was perfect and the garden was quiet. Built around a lake, a lovely path winds along the shore where you encounter beautiful scenes, perfectly laid out, wild in feeling, but manicured and exact. The garden was designed and built by a couple, Walter Beck and Marion Burk Beck. Walter was inspired by Japanese and Chinese art and aesthetic, in particular an 8th century Chinese artist, poet, and gardener named Wang Wei. He championed ideas about thoughtfully designed garden vignettes within a larger landscape. Walter Beck called this concept 'cup gardens.' In 1938 the couple teamed up with Lester Collins, a budding landscape architect at Harvard, who worked with the Becks to connect the series of smaller garden compositions into the larger landscape.</div>
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"Western gardens are usually designed to embrace a view of the whole.
Little is hidden. The garden, like a stage set, is there in its
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impossible. [It] requires a stroll over serpentine, seemingly aimless
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One side of the garden felt like a beautifully maintained trail or park, and that was where we started, and then we began to come across these "three dimensional pictures," of intentional scenes. The further we went, the more ornate the scenes became, with more structure, stone work and more cultivated plantings. </div>
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Along with ancient Chinese thoughts and practices, the garden also embodied Modernist ideas. This geometric stone pillar sat in the middle of a wide lawn, continually spraying water. In the spirit of wandering through a landscape Alice-in-Wonderland-style and encountering "episodes," coming across this fountain fit the bill. </div>
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There was never a house built on the site, but there was lots of stone work, patios and terraces giving the garden a feeling of having been lived in. I think foundation gardens, whether real or imagined, are always interesting; it illustrates the juxtaposition between man and nature (and in someways house and garden), the garden will always win in the end!</div>
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To read more about Innisfree or to plan a visit, check out their website <a href="http://www.innisfreegarden.org/" target="_blank">here</a>!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was lucky enough to visit <a href="http://billnoblegardens.com/" target="_blank">Bill Noble's</a> Garden in Norwich, Vermont this past October. I was accompanying <a href="http://www.takacsphoto.com/" target="_blank">Claire Takacs</a>, an exceptional garden photographer, on a shoot and while she diligently photographed the garden I got to walk around the garden with Bill Noble and talk about plants and garden design. It was a cold October day, with spitting snow and a punchy cold wind, but then the clouds would blow open and let in rays of spectacular fall light, illuminating the garden. The garden is great: it is beautifully designed, incredibly varied from garden area to garden area, and chock full of interesting plants. I love this particular shot above with the upright <i>Thuja occidentalis</i> 'DeGroot's Spire' against the pollarded poplars (<i>Populus nigra var</i>. 'Thevestina') waving around in the wind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The main perennial beds are laid out in quadrants with long, straight axial paths. The plantings were composed of large competitive perennial groups, asters, phlox, joe pye, iris, and sedum, with some anchoring shrubs. This time of year the colors were rich maroons, purple, earthy pinks, and lush greens. There were flashes of white from the phlox and the bleached out <i>Deschampsia cespitosa</i>, as seen here in the foreground. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I hadn't seen this plant before <i><span style="color: black;">Leucosceptrum stellipilum </span></i></span><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: small;">and it was very stately that cold October day. Any plant just coming into its own late in the fall is always celebrated. This unusual plant came from Ed Bowen at <a href="http://www.opusplants.com/" target="_blank">Opus Plants</a> who is a great plantsman growing and selling amazing plants.</span></span></span></span></div>
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That red plant is <i>Lychnis chalecondic</i>a, a nice shocking red in early summer and here it is going for a second round of bloom in August. It is plant, that when blooming, stops people in their tracks. It stopped me the first time I noticed it planted in the stock beds at Great Dixter amongst our beautiful, white flowering fleabane, <i>Erigeron annus</i>.</div>
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This is <i>Ipomopsis rubra</i> (standing cypress). The plant looks a lot like <i>Eupatorium capilifolium</i> with its fluffy, bright green foliage heading awkwardly straight upwards, but then it has this striking pink flower! I was particularly shocked to see this type of growth when the whole time I thought I was growing that sweet, twining Cardinal Climber <i>Ipomoea sloteri</i>. Haha, what a surprise.</div>
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This is a pool garden that Laurie and I planted three years ago using plants pilfered from other parts of the garden, including an Indigofera (possibly 'Rose Carpet?'-hugging the pools edge and doing fantastically against the rocks) and these wonderful <i>Pennisetum alopecuroides</i> seen here in full flower. We planted about 100 drumstick allium (<i>Allium sphaerocephalon</i>) and over the years they have tripled. Last year we cut them back once they went brown, but this year we've let them go to gray and we think they still look good. </div>
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I think front-of-the-border annual plants can be a little tricky. I want something lush, full, and interweaving so it is a major success when I stumble across one that I love. Like this <i>Gomphrena</i> 'All Around Purple.' It goes in a little small, but after a few weeks of summer heat the plant takes over whatever spot it is given. It weaves, it bushes, it stays upright (with no flopping) and keeps on blooming and blooming. A great cut too, straight stems of medium length, that can be used in dried arrangements. It is an electric purple so bring on the color. I love it with the silvery <i>Plectranthus</i> 'Silver Shield' pictured here.</div>
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A very exciting underused plant around these parts. This one gives a scary zone rating (zone 6 or higher), but in Vermont it comes back happily from the roots. This spring, after a very harsh winter, shoots came up from the base, and are currently heading into flower. </div>
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And who is the plant? My guess is a short, fine leaved Helenium, but I cannot find evidence that this type of Helenium exisits...yet. This was a throw away plant with no label, and now it is doing beautifully. Annual, perennial? It is about 5" high and ever blooming. </div>
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And lastly, I am in love with <i>Rudbekia triloba</i>, with its clouds and clouds of airy black eyed susan flowers. Here it mingles with <i>Sanguisorba officinalis </i>which I started from seed last year. I planted it in my gravel garden last fall, just as a holding spot, and it has done so well without water or compost. The stems are super strong and straight and not one has flopped. It is behaving very well in these conditions, even though I would have thought it wanted moisture and rich soil. What a nice surprise! I thought I preferred the cultivar 'Tanna,' but actually the straight species offers a bigger effect, slightly larger leaves, taller stems, and bigger flowers. </div>
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For the second year running, the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vermont is hosting a Garden Inspirations Workshop and this year the theme is growing vegetables! The workshop includes talks from professional gardeners and growers, offering practical down-to-earth advice regarding all things growing, from seed selection in late winter, to sowing and planting in spring and summer, to harvesting, and even to cooking and preparing home grown vegetables. It is a great time to get inspired for the coming growing season and all the proceeds benefit the restoration and upkeep of our lovely, historic theater in downtown Brattleboro. See below for program details and information on how to reserve your tickets!</div>
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After a long, full, busy summer, I am happy to finally find some time to see gardens, take photographs and post again. The autumn has been beautiful, with the air turning cool and crisp and leaves changing and beginning to fall. Last week I ventured to Petersham, MA to see Bruce Lockhart at Swift River Farm. Last time I was there, we were digging, moving, and planting in the meadow garden, rearranging, adding new plants, and pulling weeds. It was such a pleasure to see the meadow garden in full glory (I would say "peak), with foliage changing colors, all the seed heads upright and fading, and the plants at their fullest and wildest. Not to mention all the grasses now looking their best.<br />
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I was complimenting Bruce on the way the meadow felt, like a garden and also like a meadow. He pointed out that there seemed to be a nice balance of large blocks of plants (like large groups of the above <i>Agastache</i> 'Blue Fortune'), but also lots of plants dispersed more wildly through the beds, like the seed heads of the <i>Digitalis ferruginea </i>(also pictured above). </div>
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A nice combination of the Agastache with the <i>Amsonia hubrichtii</i> and Oregano 'Rosenkuppel.' </div>
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The rest of the garden also looked great such as this spot here with the Yews rising out of a sea of Amsonia. </div>
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At long last, here are some pictures of the nursery at The Bunker Farm along with some of its good looking plants. The Nursery has done well this spring, thanks to all you avid gardeners out there, and there are still plants for sale! We are open every Saturday from 12-5pm and by appointment (email: thebunkerfarm@gmail.com). Right now we have lots of unusual annuals, but later this summer we will have more and more perennials available for purchase. </div>
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This is a new annual to me, but according to <a href="http://www.dianeseeds.com/Index.html" target="_blank">Diane Seeds</a>, it is one of her all time favorites and will bloom until frost. It does have a wonderful wispy wiriness in the way it grows. Almost all the very good gardeners who came through my greenhouse noticed this plant and bought it based on its foliage and growth habit alone. It is a good plant, thanks Diane!</div>
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Another one of Diane's favorites, the Three Bird Toadflax. She says it is a perennial in her zone 5 garden, so I am hoping that will be true for us as well. The plants are very strong and have beautiful foliage tinged red with a very sturdy upright habit. And a totally beautiful flower!</div>
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And a nice <i>Asarina</i> <span class="st"><i>antirrhiniflora coccinea</i>, a climbing snapdragon vine. </span>I saw a whole table of these at Hampton Court and thought, I have to grow this! It took forever to germinate, but now they are here and starting to climb. </div>
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So please come by and see what we are up to! You can check out a blog post by Michael Gordon on his visit to the greenhouse here:</div>
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Happy Spring, I think it is finally here in Vermont. With the arrival of 10 lambs, with more to come, it is not hard to feel a little more springy and hopeful. One sheep dropped quadruplets and was so worn out we bottle fed the babies in the kitchen the first night. She took two back and we continue to feed the other two bottles six times a day. In the last week I learned how to milk a sheep, tube feed, and encourage nursing. </div>
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Gardening only just started for me, so for the long month of March we focused on harvesting locust posts, splitting firewood, and milling for various building projects. Mike has been very busy in the sugar bush. We had a slow start, but ended on a high note, delivering around 15,000 gallons of sap to a local sugar maker.</div>
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Noah has spent a fair amount of time logging trees on the property and running the mill. Here he is making siding for our barn restoration project.</div>
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Luckily our friend Avery arrived on the farm for a month and we put him to work replacing old carrying beams and siding. </div>
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I spent the month in the greenhouse building benches, setting up the heat, and sowing seeds. My father came and helped build a prototype bench and I built the remaining seven. I found galvanized, heavy gauge, woven panels to use as tops and built sturdy frames under them. I am very pleased with my tables!</div>
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And I have quickly outgrown the space!</div>
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On the other side we have greens galore, planted last autumn they all survived the arctic temperatures with no heat. They continue to amaze us and sustain us! The farm will be open Saturdays 10-5 all spring and summer. It is a good time to come and check out the animals and we will have meat, greens, and plants for sale. Hope to see you soon.</div>
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We also have a website (still under construction):</div>
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Recently, I found this picture of <i>Alonsoa</i> 'The Rebel,' an annual I grew from seed last year. I ordered this seed, not knowing the plant at all, lured in by the description of an old fashioned plant with coral colored flowers. It was smaller and more sprawly than I imagined it would be, looking a great deal like a Diascia, but with an intense orange pink bloom and shrubby ground covering foliage. The plant crawled about, but the stems curved upright, carrying their little flowers. As the days shortened and the temperatures dropped, the plant seemed to come into its own. I don't know if it was because of the changing season, or the plant just needed more time to develop, but it was wonderful to see a plant at its best in October. I guess I am a sucker for those late bloomers. </div>
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Here the Alonsoa gives a nice footing to the Northern Sea Oats grass,<i> Chasmanthium latifolium</i>.</div>
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Last summer Joe Valentine from <a href="http://www.juniperhillfarmnh.com/" target="_blank">Juniper Hill</a>, and his wife Paula Hunter, asked me design a small border. They have a gorgeous garden and are already incredibly accomplished gardeners, so I wasn't sure what I could possibly offer. Joe said he wanted an exuberant border, packed with interesting plants and full of late season flowers. I drew up a design and sent a plant list; it was a go. The above photo is of the garden space dug over and prepped by Joe and Paula.</div>
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I like the foreground/background pictured here. The view is framed in coppery-red, with the <i>Acer</i> and <i>Syringa</i> 'Tinkerbell' on the left and red crab apple dots on the right. In the middle is a lively green <i>Miscanthus</i> and a topiaried <i>Syringa meyeri</i> 'Palibin'. In the foreground is purple Verbena with <i>Zinna</i> Bearny's Giant Lime, Bronze fennel in full flower, and the white flowers of <i>Boltonia asteroides</i> 'Snowbank.' The beautiful design and structure of the larger garden offers contrast in scale, style and from to the intricacy and wildness of the perennial and annual planting.</div>
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One of my favorite Dalhia's, 'Karma Prosero'- a mellow light pink for this time of year, but on very dark, erect stems. Here the Tagetes 'Cinnabar' weaves through.</div>
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over pictures of Great Dixter in preparation for the Garden Inspirations
Workshop, a fundraiser for the Latchis Theater in Brattleboro, Vermont.
On January 25, Gordon Hayward, Julie M. Messervy, Dan Snow, and I will give talks about gardening and design. I will be giving a talk about my experience volunteering
in the garden at Great Dixter, sharing about the gardens, the work, the people and the plants! To read more about the day and how to purchase tickets, click here:</div>
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Above is a picture of the front lawn at Great Dixter, one of the few places that a traditional, short mown lawn still exists. In the center of the lawn is a small, oval shaped garden, always full of interesting plants. Two of my favorite newly discovered annuals, <i>Scabiosa autopurpurea</i> 'Beaujolais bonnets' and <i>Nigella hispancia, </i>happily wave about. The central plant is a bamboo (the tips poke into the picture from the upper left), <i>Chusquea culeou,</i> and it was grown from seed at Great Dixter. Because this plant has a lot of variability from seed, head gardener Fergus Garrett grew fifteen different plants, and selected one that most closely resembled the parent plant. Fergus chose this particular plant for the prehistoric way it came out of the ground (the stems are very dark and the new shoots zigzag off the central stem). For seven years it only produced fluffy new shoots until finally the sought after characteristic emerged. Fergus said he kept the plant for so many years, because he believed that this particular plant had good form in it. Those kinds of long haul lessons are so valuable to hear, that some of the most exciting gardening comes from years and years of working in the same beds with the same plants, watching them, waiting for them, and encouraging them. </div>
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One of my favorite evenings in July was spent with Great Dixter students at Gravetye Manor, the famous old home and landscape of William Robinson, a pioneer of wild gardening. A few years ago, Tom Coward was hired as head gardener and began an extensive renovation of the neglected gardens that were overrun with bindweed. Prior to his arrival at Gravetye, he was the deputy gardener under Fergus Garrett at Great Dixter. It was very exciting to see Great Dixter influences in plantsmanship, creative combinations and full plantings, but it was also inspiring to see Tom Coward's own style emerge in the spirit of Robinson. We arrived in the early evening and just caught the last rays of light on exuberant plantings.</div>
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Looking out the meadows from the main borders. This geranium feels like it is calling out to the meadows- it is a perfect transition plant, connecting the cultivated borders to the wild.</div>
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<i>Stipa gigantea</i>, a plant I never got tired of. Everywhere I saw it, it was spectacular. </div>
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This combination of plants keeps crossing my mind: <i>Stipa gigantea, Foeniculum vulgare</i> 'Purpureum', <i>Cephalaria gigantea, Digitalis, </i>and<i> Cirsium rivulare</i> 'Autopurpureum.'<br />
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Always amazing to have foxgloves blooming at odd times of summer. Since they are biennials, gardeners can often sow them in the fall, and get them into bloom in the spring. If they are sown early-late winter, you can get a later bloom time, pushing them into summer. In Vermont for the past few years, I have purchased digitalis starts from Walker Farm. Every year they put up blooms in August and September. It is a little shocking to take in the fall garden with foxgloves in full bloom.<br />
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The perennial bineweed is so tenacious that the borders have to be dug out and over each year. This makes planting foundation plants and more permanent plantings difficult. Tom Coward has creatively used plants like the biennial <i>Angelica archangelica</i> to add substantial structure to his borders. </div>
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This was my first sighting of <i>Silene</i> 'Blue Angel,' a plant I sowed, handled, and planted at Great Dixter in March 2011, but never saw bloom. I was immediately drawn to it and then when I was told who it was, I had one of those exciting recognition moments of putting a face to a name. It is interplanted with lacey <i>Orlaya grandiflora</i>.<br />
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In July I received some good news. Noah and I, along with my sister Jen and her partner Mike, were selected to purchase the Bunker Farm in Dummerston, Vermont. In May the four of us put together an application to purchase the newly conserved farm from the Vermont Land Trust. In a hefty eighty page document, we outlined our diversified farm plan; which included raising animals for meat, growing various vegetable crops for local markets and restaurants, growing annual and perennial flowers, selling our own maple syrup, and developing educational programs with local school and community groups. It is the most exciting thing that could have happened for the four of us and we are looking forward to a long and fruitful life on the farm. <br />
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This farm is nestled in one of the most beautiful valleys in all of southern Vermont. There are sixty acres of open fields and one hundred acres of woodlands. The hills rise up in all directions from the house and at times it is steep. There are two ponds, sixteen acres of sugar maple woods, stands of locust and white pines, and the place teems with wildlife. We are constantly aware that the land is so much bigger than us and that it will remain in conservation and agriculture long after we are gone. <br />
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The farm house was in pretty good condition, despite the looks of the paint job. There is a lifetime of work to be done, the short list includes major chimney repair, a new roof, and replacing rotten sills, but during the month of August we managed to paint a majority of the exterior and interior, refinish the old pine floorboards, and replace some of the worst of the old windows and doors. In September, we all moved in.</div>
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Giving the house a fresh coat of paint and digging out all the plants around the foundation made an immediate impact.<br />
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I uncovered this nice stone pathway, previously covered in weeds and grass. In every direction, there is endless work to do. I found myself taking on the garden in little sections, digging out the weeds and brambles, saving the odd bits of good looking plants. Across the road is our pole barn, which is in better condition that it looks. <br />
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One of the ponds on the property. We swim in it despite the rumor of very large snapping turtles.<br />
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Hills rise on three sides of the house and the land encompasses all three sides of the road. Walking up through an upper pasture there is this little picture window looking down on the beautiful old hay barn. Apple trees scatter the landscape, all gnarly and overgrown, but still elegant and delicious.</div>
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Here is the beginning of our very own cow herd. At the start we have five hearty Herefords and two Jersey/Angus crosses. <br />
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Our lovely sheep are Dorset crosses and we hope to breed them with a Finn ram this winter. Sheep are great to have in conjunction with cows- the cows graze first, but only eat the tops of the grass. The sheep come through and eat the grass much closer to the ground, but they also eat a large variety of weeds and undesirables. The land is a little overgrown, particularly along all the edges and hedgerows, with massive crops of beautiful, yet horribly weedy plants such as Buckthorn (<i>Rhamnus cathartica</i>), <i>Rosa multiflora</i>, Bittersweet (<i>Celastrus orbiculatus</i>), Poison Ivy (<i>Toxicodendron radicans),</i> and Berberis (<i>Berberis thunbergii)</i>. All of these plants are non-native and tenacious, creating twelve foot impasses of tangled plants. Luckily, our sheep herd came with a goat, serendipitously named Dahlia, and she prefers these woody, thorny plants above all else.<br />
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Our pigs are Tamworths and of all the different pigs we've raised, these are by far our favorite. As far as I can tell, pigs have three personality traits; a little mean, a little dull, or curious. These ones are curious, unafraid, and affectionate- what more can you hope for in a pig! We are considering breeding the sows in spring, if we can find a good boar. Breeding pigs and keeping 800 pound boars around is a bit of an undertaking, but we love having pigs and nothing is better than a piglet. We picked these piglets up from a farm in Windham. When we arrived, the piglets were still in the pen with the sow and the boar. It was a testament of their genetics that we were able to hop in the pen and take the piglets out with the parents standing by. These pigs are fenced in two acres of overgrown orchard and they spend their days feasting on fallen apples.<br />
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Chickens. These girls are our two laying hens, a gift from my father, and I am sure we will get more in the spring. We are also raising meat birds and have already raised, slaughtered, and sold our first 150 and we are on to our second batch. It is a little late to be raising chickens this time of year and keeping them warm enough has been a challenge. Our goal is to raise 1,000 birds a year, primarily in the spring and summer months. <br />
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Inside the greenhouse, Mike has planted all sorts of leafy, vegetables- some from starts and other directly sowed- and we are presently selling bags of spicy, mixed greens.</div>
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This is the Flower side of the greenhouse, where come February I will sow lots of seeds, and probably far too many out of enthusiasm. In the meantime, my Dahlias are drying out.</div>
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Much to do on the gardening front. Digging is my main occupation- turning brambles and nettles back into garden space. The soil is ideal- light, beautifully colored copper brown, rich, free draining, and there is no clay. I only have experienced soil like this a few times in my life, so I have a lot to learn. I have planted a few things that were hanging around in pots, just to get them in the ground, but I will have more to show and tell in spring. Here's to the beginning!</div>
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At long, long last this beauty has bloomed. <i>Rabdosia longituba</i> is a plant I acquired from Ed Bowen at <a href="http://www.opusplants.com/" target="_blank">Opus Nursery</a> two summers ago. I loved its quirky name, its bright foliage, and I was lured in by the promise of late purple flowers. Well, that first year I kept it in a pot for too long and in October I desperately stuck it in the garden. I was sure it would die. In the spring there was no sign of life for awhile, and then one little shoot appeared. In September this year it put out some delicate little dangling purple droplet buds! That alone was thrilling, until yesterday when I caught its little flickering flowers aglow in that low afternoon light.</div>
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I returned home at the beginning of August, after a wonderful month at Great Dixter, and was greeted with many happy sights. Most notably, while I was away I found out that Noah and I, along with my sister and Mike, were the chosen applicants to buy <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Bunker-Farm-Dummerston-VT/469181353180216" target="_blank">The Bunker Farm</a>, a 160 acre farm in Dummerston, Vermont. Naturally we have been busy getting the farm started. We are now all living in the house, the 60 acres of hay fields are mowed and baled, we have chickens and plans for cows, and the gardens are slowly turning over one by one. Pictures to follow!</div>
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I also came home to very exuberant gardens. All of those little plants I planted grew and grew, as well as a few weeds. All in all, the gardens were well- tended and wild. Above is a photo of Deb Shumlin's garden in mid-August. This spring Deb replaced a small terraced lawn surrounded by gardens with a stone patio. We brought the gardens right up to the edges of the stones and planted a few annuals. In a few short months, the gardens have completely filled out. All of the giant <i>Nicotiana sylvestris</i> are self-sown.</div>
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Looking back up to the patio. In the back, are the nodding stems of African foxglove (<i>Ceratotheca triloba</i> 'Lilac') and the pink flower in front is the Chinese foxglove, <i>Rehmannia angulata</i> 'Popstar' (also known as <i>Rehmannia elata</i>). I got the Rhemannia seeds from <a href="http://www.dianeseeds.com/Index.html" target="_blank">Diane's Seeds</a> and they report that the plant survives zone 5 winters and is more floriferous the following year. It will be interesting to see if this happens for us. </div>
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Here is a shot of Bruce Lockhart's Pleasure Garden in Petersham, Massachusetts. I helped him in the spring bringing in new perennials and annuals to his already beautiful garden.<br />
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In the Pleasure Garden we planted reds and oranges, in foliage and flower. <i>Emilia javanica</i> (syn. <i>Emilia coccinea</i>) and <i>Cosmos sulphureus</i> 'Towering Orange' give dotted blasts of orange, while <i>Monarda</i> 'Jacob Cline' offers up some red. The deep burgundy hues are from the lovely <i>Hibiscus acetosella</i> 'Mahogany Splendor,' which I started from seed in the spring. Leaning awkwardly in on the left are the Suess-like arms of <i>Helianthus salacifolius</i>. <br />
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In the Willow Garden, there are more subdued tones, composed in blue, purple, and white. We did throw in a little <i>Solanum ptycanthum</i>, to add some spiny orange stems as a little compliment.<br />
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This perennial garden at Diane Bower's garden in Newfane was designed by Gordon Hayward, with room to incorporate some annuals. Diane hired me to plant the garden and add that annual touch. <br />
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At Stan Fry's garden in Peterborough, New Hampshire, I designed and planted ten planters and containers dotted throughout the garden. Here is one just coming into its own, with <i>Lophospermum</i> 'Lofos Wine Red' dangling with dark pink flowers. The grass is <i>Unicina unicinata</i> 'Rubra,' grown as an annual here, it is a native to New Zealand. <br />
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These last few photos are from my own small garden, which has been mostly neglected all summer, especially since moving onto the farm. However, it is definitely holding its own and seems to be continuing on perfectly fine without me. My mother saw it and said, "You <i>really</i> have taken on wild gardening." I think she meant it well... Above are a few examples of some incredible, intentionally-left weeds running wild with a few more refined characters. In the weed category are the huge aralia-like purple berries of <i>Phytolacca americana</i>, the very tall <i>Coreposis tripteris</i>, and the native <i>Geranium bicknelli.</i> The pale blue flower in front is an annual I tried this year called <i>Gilla capitata</i>. It has nice foliage and sweet, but very subtle blue flowers. Its habit is a bit too sprawling and tumbling, but I think I might be able to improve on it next year by pinching back and planting in leaner soils.</div>
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A good messy combination of lots of things, looking rosier as the cooler weather kicks in. I tried Dahlia 'Fascination' this year and had great results. It is a very strong pink on dark leaves, the flowers stand up well on long stems, and it starts blooming earlier than the others.</div>
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Looking in the other direction you can get a good look at the Dahlia. The white spray arching over is from the single flower of a <i>Artemesia lactiflora</i> 'Guizhou,' which is a plant I have been wanting for a few years and just got a piece from Bruce Lockhart's garden. It seems to be doing well and I have high hopes for the future! </div>
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Please join us on Januray 25th at the Latchis Theater in downtown Brattleboro, Vermont for a Garden Inspirations Workshop, as part of a fundraising effort to restore the historic and gorgeous Latchis Theater. I will be giving a talk on my experience at Great Dixter and sharing the program with some of my garden heroes, including Gordon Hayward, Julie Messervy, and Dan Snow! Sign up soon as they are only selling 100 tickets.</div>
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This month at Great Dixter has been packed full of incredible experiences, including meeting Beth Chatto and seeing her incredible garden. Beth Chatto is an amazing woman, in the her nineties now, and so generous, sharp and poignant. I hung on her every word, enthralled, listening to her stories and ideas. And then her garden was glorious. I was most enamored by her Gravel Garden, an experiment in zero-irrigation gardening, cultivating and expertly arranging truly drought tolerant, tough plants. They were beautiful, textural, sculptural, wispy and brilliantly colorful. Asa Gregers-Warg has been gardening with Beth Chatto for thirteen years and she led us through the garden. She said that in the gravel garden, the arrangement and design had more to do with editing at this point than with anything else; deciding which self-sowers to leave and taking the majority out. I was impressed by the spaces created by all this editing. I think it is hard to pull out all those great plants- and it would have been easy to leave in many more, but the effect was just perfect. <br />
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I love the above combination with the yellow <i>Alcea rugosa</i>, maroon <i>Allium sphaerocephalon</i>, gray leaves of <i>Artemesia</i>, and the bright gold feathery leaves and stems of <i>Asphodeline liburnica</i>. </div>
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A beautiful <i>Genista aetnensis</i> in full flower and fragrance. I have seen these small trees/large shrubs in other gardens too, including Chelsea Physic, Wisley, Sissinghurst and here at Great Dixter.</div>
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Beth Chatto's garden is beautifull composed. Here is a nice example of the layers and shapes she has created, with lots of varying textures and colors. The scalloped gray leaf plant is <i>Ballota</i>, and likely <i>B. pseudodictamnus</i>. </div>
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This was a great plant, <i>Galactites tomentosa</i>. It's buds, seed heads, and flowers all kind of blended together and you had to get up close to really see what was what. From a distance it was a fuzzy field of silvery white. I saw another form of this plant at Siisnghurst, with slightly larger purple flowers with glossy mottled green foliage.</div>
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My favorite moment in the garden was sitting on Beth Chatto's patio, listening to her stories and peering out from under the Magnolia into her garden. There are two massive conifers, rising upwards like thick, dark green columns framing the view. The early morning light was passing between them and illuminating a wavering stand of Verbena. It was glorious!</div>
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The best part of spending a month living and volunteering at Great Dixter, is being in the garden in the early morning and late evening- when the light is the best and the crowds have dispersed. This is the time to capture the best photographs as well. Above in the Barn Garden is the lovely <i>Salvia scalera</i> 'Vatican White,' flowering with the <i>Lychnis coronaria</i> 'Alba.' Fergus came around a few days ago and said the gods of Sissinghurst are playing a trick on us! The Lychnis was meant to be magenta pink for some outrageous color contrast and instead it looks like a slice of the white garden at Sissinghurst. </div>
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The pot displays all changed around on Friday. This ensemble was created by Fergus to show the students how to do it.<br />
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One of my favorite parts of the garden right now is the Orchard Garden with <i>Erigeron annus</i> floating through. </div>
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<i>Lagurus ovatus</i> with pink <i>Amberboa mauritanica</i> in the Barn Garden. </div>
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<i>Thalictrum</i> 'Elin' with the new plumes of<i> Calamagrostis x acutiflora</i> 'Karl Foerster' in the Barn Garden.<br />
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The Exotic Garden. Stay tuned for more on that- it is starting to put on some growth! </div>
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The wonderful <i>Campanula lactiflora</i> is blooming in pockets all over the garden. It is such a great, glorious plant, with giant, thick heads of purple on sturdy, slightly arching stems. This specimen is growing right on the edge in front of the iconic <i>Eunoymous</i> 'Silver Queen.'</div>
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The <i>Agrostis capillaris</i> grass just came into bloom in the meadows, taking the meadow-loveliness to another level. Yesterday morning I was out moving the sprinklers and came across the dew in the long grass and it was breathtaking. I continued to photograph it as it changed through the day. Here is the meadow in the early morning light, with a few remaining meadow cranesbill (<i>Geranium pratense</i>) and the native <i>Iris latifolia</i>.</div>
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with <i>Centaurea nigra</i> just coming into bloom.</div>
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I love coming up from the lower meadow and seeing the long border against the tall grass!</div>
Helen O'Donnellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01605026438926611932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-117614690716175641.post-63921026770848411272013-07-13T16:18:00.003-04:002013-07-13T16:18:37.056-04:00The Peacock Garden<span id="goog_1559704385"></span><span id="goog_1559704386"></span><br />
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The Peacock Garden has been a continual show stopper since I arrived, with two signature plants swaying up there in the breeze: <i>Thalictrum</i> 'Elin' with <i>Ferrula communis subsp. glauca</i>. The nursery has officially sold out of this perfect <i>Thalictrum</i>, much to everyone's dismay-
and there won't be more until next spring. It is a really good
cultivar, each plant bears multiple stems that are tall and self
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Here they are coming into flower, bright lime-yellow puffs emerging out of lavender shells. They get a little frothier every day.</div>
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A nice grass, <i>Ampelodesmos mauritanicus</i>, and a monotypic genus.
It seems to get better as the days pass. It has been a terrific, jam
packed, hard working and garden touring week. It is hot and dry here and
I have been on sprinkler patrol, moving them around every hour or two
for days on end. All that good watering pays off, the garden looks
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Rosa 'Ballerina'<br />
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It has been an amazing week here at Great Dixter. I have been planting a lot- pulling out and cutting back spring bedding and planting in the next round. I have also been working in the Exotic Garden working on a round of planting, diligently trying to place and plant everything just exactly right. Here plants are put in as they are meant to look- there is no waiting for something to grow into its place. I have to focus on un-learning everything I have learned about planting things straight up and down and away from the edge, etc. I am getting a real "edge-ucation." I finally put in a little <i>Tagetes lemmonii</i> in exactly the way I thought Fergus would like and he said to me, "Well, you don't want to over-do it." There is a fine line and I have a feeling it will take years to find it! <br />
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Every month, Great Dixter runs a plant study day, headed by Kemal Mehdi, a long time horticulturist, teacher, and friend and neighbor of Christopher Lloyd. Afterhours, the staff, students and volunteers are offered the same garden walk. Kemal led us through the garden and through nine pages of plant names. It was amazing. His knowledge of the plants, history of the garden, anectdotal stories, and humor made the nearly five hours zoom by. He wonderfully brought us into his own journey of plant identification- since there are not perfect records of every plant in the garden, there is a complex process to uncover the truth about who's who. Still there are mysteries and it was terrific to hear Kemal's thought process and exploration. At the end he told us, "This list is just a map, it doesn't actually matter if you know all the names of the plants, what matters is what you can do with them."<br />
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Kemal went through many of the roses in the garden. Here are some of them (thought there are still many more) looking completely gorgeous and in full bloom! </div>
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Rosa 'Florence Mary Morse' seen in the Long Border, but it is also found in the Exotic Garden.</div>
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Rosa 'Madge'</div>
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I think this is one of my favorite roses so far- it is a perfectly sized 3-4 foot shrub, with excellent foliage, buckets of flowers, and a terrific scent. This is seen in the Exotic Garden, also known as the old rose garden. The old rose garden still has at least seven different roses in it.</div>
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Rosa 'White Wings' in the Exotic Garden. In combination with 'Madge' and 'White Wings,' is Rosa 'Chanelle,' which hangs down from above with clusters of smooth apricot perfectly formed and perfumed blossoms. </div>
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Rosa 'Mrs. Oakley Fisher'</div>
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This one came as a cutting from Vita-Sackville West and is an early hybrid tea rose. </div>
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In the Orchard Garden there are a good many roses lining the central path. The dark pink is Rosa 'Cerise Bouquet.'</div>
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Together they are scrambling up and through the <i>Prunus lusitanica</i> 'Variegata.' In the early morning and late afternoon, the light catches the roses sprouting up out of the canopy. </div>
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Rosa 'Kiftsgate' in the Kitchen Drive</div>
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I am back at Great Dixter to volunteer for the month of July. I keep pinching myself to make sure I am really here... It is remarkable to be back after almost a year and a half and to see the garden during the peak of summer. This time I am staying in the house, in a little bedroom, looking out over the tropical garden. Yesterday I woke up and took photographs before the garden opened, the day was so sunny and warm with a nice breeze and I had the garden practically to myself.</div>
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The Long Border!</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">White <i>Salvia scalera</i> 'Vatican White,' with purple hesperis (<i>Hesperis matronalis</i>) and the parsnip, (<i>Pastinaca sativa</i>)</span><span style="color: #476c24; font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>. </i><span style="color: black;">Both the parsnip and hesperis grows wildly in the roadside ditches in Vermont and I have been particularly admiring of the parsnip these past few years. This parsnip is featured throughout Great Dixter this year, particularly in the High Garden.</span></span></span></div>
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One of my favorite views in the High Garden, and always changing. These beautiful Bachelor Buttons are <i>Centaurea cyanus</i> 'Blue Diadem.' The seeds are sowed in autumn and plants are wintered over in cold frames, resulting in plants with serious stature.</div>
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The little wooden bench in the High Garden is one of the nicest spots in the garden. Here you can enjoy the yellow tops of the parsnip. </div>
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The Kitchen Drive showing off the incredible giant umbel <i>Ferrula communis</i> <i>ssp</i>. <i>glauca</i>. It has a dark purplish stem with yellow flowers that glow a bit orange. This is one of those plants that I heard a lot about in March, but had never seen it flower. It is spectacular!</div>
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I love this picture looking out over the valley with the Verbascum echoing the fastigiate oak in the background. </div>
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Snap dragons in the Solar Garden. </div>
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The Barn Garden. </div>
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The Topiary Garden. </div>
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The meadows, with the signature orchid <i>Dactylorhiza fuchsii</i>.</div>
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The steps leading to the terrace with <i>Erigeron karvinskianus</i> and <i>Centranthus ruber.</i></div>
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The stock beds on the Orchard Garden with a nice red-hot <i>Lychnis chalcedonica</i>.</div>
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