Salix Britzensis

Seeing Red

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What with all the seasonal decorations, scarlet poinsettias, and other adornments, we are all seeing red at this time of the year.  But what about the cold, dark days that still loom ahead?  You have to be a real optimist to look out at the winter landscape and see anything other than shades of brown, … Read more

Closing Down, Opening Up

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For those of us in cold winter climates, mid-fall is the time to say a gradual goodbye to flowers.  Annuals will soldier on until the first hard frost, but they are slowing down in anticipation of the inevitable.  Most perennials have finished up, with the exception of a few Montauk daisies, tall sedums, fall crocuses … Read more