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Invitation to a Wild Party

According to local legend, a few years ago, Midwesterners Linda Horn and Allan Davidson threw a dart at a map of the Northeast, and it landed on Spencertown, NY, where they have lived and gardened ever since.  This weekend, Horn, an artist, invites anyone who is interested to their property

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Open Days: Lush Litchfield, Blooming Berkshires

The Garden Conservancy's Open Days program is not only about touring extraordinary private gardens, but also about meeting great gardeners in situ.  You see first-hand how gardeners' passions and peculiarities are reflected in the landscapes they create for themselves. You come to understand that gardening requires irrational

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Open Days: Three Perennial Favorites

Some gardens, like some novels, can be taken in at once, with a glance; others bear intense study year after year.  The regional offerings on the Open Days Conservancy Tour on Sunday, May 31, fall into the second camp.  Admission, $5 at each property, may be paid at the door.

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Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

Gardening: Open Days Are Here Again

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Rural Rules of Life: Twenty Questions for Margaret Roach

A year ago, when Rural Intelligence was brand new, so was A Way To Garden.com, the garden blog produced by Margaret Roach from her home in Copake Falls, NY.  Though Margaret had been spending weekends toiling in her Columbia County garden for more than twenty years, she had only

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The Mount: A Garden in Winter

Rich Pomerantz, who took the photographs for this season's gardening book of choice, Great Gardens of the Berkshires, climbed onto the roof of The Mount, the Edith Wharton historic site in Lenox, to get these extraordinary shots, which are nearly as instructive as they are beautiful. Like the

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The Fungus Among Us, and other Landscaping Salvos

Breaking the soil is the biggest challenge a gardener has.  And once it's broken, keeping it that way—light, loamy and nutritious—is an on-going struggle.  In fact, the verbs "to struggle" and "to garden" often (specifically, from May through September) appear to be

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Fully Booked: Two New Volumes on Gardening in Zone 5

When it's too cold to garden, gardeners dream.  Sitting by the fire, they hatch schemes for the growing season ahead—new beds they hope to add, unsatisfactory ones they plan to remedy or abolish.   And just as the fire requires constant refueling, so does the gardener's

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Conserving Water, One Raindrop at a Time

This Saturday, November 8, as part of their Green Gardening Educational Series, The Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge will offer a special two-hour talk on water conservation in the garden by guest lecturer Marcus de la Fleur.  Mr. de la Fleur, a landscape architect with the Conservation Design Forum in

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New York Botanical Continuing Ed Sallelite at Bard

It begins with the first sign of fall and grows more pronounced with every passing week.  Gardeners who for months have been bounding (well, perhaps not quite bounding) out of bed at 5 a.m. to squeeze in as many hours of muddy bliss as possible, retreat indoors to mope

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The Last Open Day of the Season

Ah the joys of snooping around other peoples' gardens, luxuriating in their seeming miles of brilliantly conceived, meticulously maintained, well-fed, deeply-mulched, weed-free planting beds, without personally having suffered a single twinge of sciatica or, indeed, so much as a broken nail.  Devotees of the Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours,

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Gardening: Hollister House Festival & Seminar

Hollister House, in Washington, CT, is the featured site of a Garden Conservancy-sponsored Study Weekend that kicks off with a cocktail reception and tour of the extraordinary gardens that were begun there in 1979 by George Schoellkopf and Ron Johnson.  Since then, under Schoellkopf’s guidance (and, since 1993, with

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