Good for birds, good for gardens: the lessons of a freezing winter – Times Online   It all goes to underline a point that has become increasingly true in recent years: the suburbs are now nationally significant for wildlife   you’ll find much more biodiversity in your garden.   Gardens matter. They can be regarded [...]

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Duncan Brine Principal Landscape Designer Horticultural Design, Inc. speaks on Living in Nature at the Berkshire Botanical Garden  Saturday, January 30 For more on this talk go to gardenlarge.com.   The New York Botanical Garden presents a seminar Site Character: An Approach to Creative Design with Duncan Brine Wednesday, February 17, 10am – 12pm For [...]

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Susan Morse gave an entertaining presentation tonight in Patterson, NY, enlivened by her own, stunning wildlife photography. The mission of her organization, Keeping Track, is “…to inspire community participation in the long-term stewardship of wildlife habitat.” Job well done. Cougar © Susan C.Morse We have yet to see a cougar in the garden, but we [...]

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Winter’s Cheerleader, Yelling for Spring – New York Times Annotated       In the Garden     I first encountered Hamamelis mollis, the Chinese species, years ago, at Clark Botanic Garden, in Albertson, N.Y. It was a sunny January day, and this sprawling beauty — 5 feet tall and 20 feet across — lounged [...]

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A Landscape in Winter, Dying Heroically – New York Times Annotated   Multimedia Slide Show Artfully Planned Decay Piet Oudolf “The skeletons of the plants are for me as important as the flowers.” For Mr. Oudolf, in fact, the real test of a well-composed garden is not how nicely it blooms but how beautifully it [...]

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