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Gardening Resolutions

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We all make New Year’s resolutions.  By now, with winter’s gray days weighing heavily upon us, many have already been broken.  But gardening resolutions are different.  Those of us in cold winter climates haven’t had the chance to break any resolutions yet, because those resolutions depend on our ability to break the frozen ground.  We … Read more

Busman’s Holiday

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What do gardeners do on vacation? Visit gardens, of course, or, if we have places to do so, garden in our vacation spaces. Ever the horticultural glutton, I do both. My sister and I own a summer cottage on nine acres of land in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. My maternal grandfather … Read more