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Long Blooming Hardy Perennial Plants : Prizewinning Series, May 2012

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2012/05/08

May 2012 Awards A First Prize in the category of Longest Blooming, Hardy Perennial Self – Sowers goes to: Corydalis lutea and to Corydalis lutea alba. …… Easy, long flowering friends can be found among the many perennial choices in the plant world. Among the handsomest of hardy, long blooming plants, these two enthusiastic Corydalines [...]

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Long Blooming Hardy Plants : Prizewinning Series 2011

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2011/08/24

August Awards A First Prize in the category of Longest Blooming, Best Standing Self Sowers goes to: Linaria purpurea (purple) and to Linaria purpurea Canon J. Went (pink) Linaria purpurea Canon J. Went The pink form of this Linaria is named in honor of Canon J. Went (ecumenical), and was his horticultural ‘goal’ plant. This [...]

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Long Blooming, Self Sowing, Comeback Plants

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2011/04/10

Prizewinning Naturalising Plants : Annuals and Perennials .Self Sowing Comeback Plants for Zone 5BIt is a good feeling to have some favorite plants that you know are So Happy in your place that they will be coming back of their own accord, year after year, through generations of new individuals. These are your Naturalisers. Some [...]

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Designing Your Landscape : Hard Materials

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/12/28

Choosing your Materials Select a Family of Hard Materials from the Beginning. It is best to choose the family of things you will be using together in the landscape for your hard materials ‘palette’ before you try to think about your built projects in detail since, in the end, these early choices will affect the [...]

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Your Ecotome

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/11/22

ECOTOME This self describing noun is not much in current use, yet it would seem to me by its etymological origins that it could usefully be incorporated when referring to ones own local ecological context. The ‘local ecotome’ would refer to the surrounding area of which you are a part, the one whose ecological realities [...]

Also posted in Garden Making Guidance, Things They Never Tell You, Your Reasoned Landscape | Tagged ecology, ecotome, habitat, landscape, local ecology, local ecotome, local habitat, your ecotome | 246 Responses

Pumpkins and Other Long Island Characters

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/10/24

Harvest Holiday On 10/10/10 I drove slowly through the Orient Point Park and wildlife reserve, which lies like a ribbon stretched out alongside the Atlantic Ocean at the easternmost tip of Long Island, New York. I was on the lookout for my old friends, the box turtles, who live quietly there (with turtle crossing signs [...]

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Long Blooming Vines: Loniceras

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/10/06

Favorite Long Blooming Vines: Some Prizewinning Honeysuckles If you find a place in each view for one or more kinds of the longest blooming plants, and build your landscape pictures to complement their colors and character, your beds can nearly always be freshly beautiful. These Loniceras are tough and reliable and contribute substantially to a [...]

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Plant Names and Why They Matter

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/09/30

“Most of us are bored with gossip and photographs of people we do not know. The beginner feels the same way about plants”[1] … The plant scene becomes more interesting when you understand the cast of characters a bit. To develop relationships with the plant players, you will want to get to know them as [...]

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Growing Your Own Moss

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/09/19

ESTABLISHING MOSS If you have Moss and you want to encourage it, or you are bringing some into your land………. Choose or create an ecology like the one in which your moss was originally thriving. Look for clues as to the favored habitat of your particular candidates. Think about the soil and exposure around each [...]

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Mosses You are Likely to Meet

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/09/01

Accurately labeled, this display identifies many of the prevalent resident mosses of New England so that they can introduce themselves to you. Once you know the name of the kind you are curious about, you can find out more about it with the help of Google. I wanted you to know the names of these [...]

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Earth Swapping = Easy Underground Composting

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/08/24

Underground Composting … You will need loam and compost each season in your yard. Often it will just be a little, but you can’t get along without it. Earth washes away, sinks and compacts so somehow, if you are working the garden, you will always need a little more. One might prefer not to [...]

Also posted in Garden Making Guidance, Things They Never Tell You | Tagged compost bins, Composting, earth swapping, easy composting, making compost, recycling, underground compost | 153 Responses

Pruning Your Clematis

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/08/01

Prune After Flowering. This is the the General rule for all Clematis, as it is for most plant materials. But When After? This is the Question that has the Longer Answer, but the shortcut to remembering easily what to do and not to do is contained in this rhyme : CONCERNING FALL CLEANUP “If it [...]

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Clematis Clues

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/07/30

Clematis Vines Training and Pruning

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Approaching Your Land

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/05/04

RS You must know your Land Partner intimately before you can know what will be best to do. First notice everything you can and then wonder about it. Once you are aware of what is currently happening on your land, you can alter things in ways that can best benefit your place. To establish a [...]

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Deletions are First

By Ellen Cool | Published: 2010/04/30

Start with the Givens. For the design of the all the work, from built work to plant work, you will first want to carefully consider which features of the property can not or will not be altered. These are the givens, and they all have implications for the possibilities. Whatever is wonderful you will [...]

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