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Black Walnut Inspiration
For when you get demoralized thinking about all the things you can’t grow under your black walnut, take heart. This venerable black walnut tree, located at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, VA,...
View ArticleJuly 7, 2018
A glorious, sunny, breezy day today and I spent it toiling around the perimeters of my property at war with ivy and Virginia creeper. Each year I make a little more progress on the unkempt regions of...
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Toxic Relationships
Very few can survive, let alone thrive, living in the vicinity of a toxic individual. Many will succumb instantly, unable to co-exist even for a short time in a toxic environment. Others make a go of...
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Corona Garden Diary 3/17/20
I planted several handfuls of ‘Tete a Tete’ daffodils last fall and I am reaping the rewards now. I will definitely plant more of these little guys — perhaps hundreds more! Plenty of space on that...
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Corona Diary 3/18/20: Seeds & Stuff
Yesterday, while the rest of the country was busy not celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, I was planting my peas. Here they are, snug in their Earthbox until they begin germinating in a week or so: A few...
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Corona Garden Diary 3/22/20: Two Views on the Ornamental Cherry
Here in northern VA, the cherry blossoms are at their splendid best. Down at the Tidal Basin, at least some tourists are showing up to view the iconic Yoshino cherries (check the Bloom Cam to monitor...
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Corona Garden Diary 3/25/20: Good Spreader/Bad Spreader
It all started out innocently: a tiny plant that hitchhiked its way into my yard in the pot of a coralberry bush that I purchased from a nursery a few years ago. I planted the coralberry in the fall,...
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Corona Garden Diary 3/30/20: No, April isn’t Canceled
In the wake of Virginia governor Northam’s stay-at-home order today, I saw a headline that said “April Canceled.” Clusiana tulips ‘Cynthia’. They close up when the sunlight starts to fade. When they...
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Corona Garden Diary 4/19: Hellebores in a Glass
Since browsing at the nursery isn’t currently an option, I am making the most of the plants I do have, digging up clumps of them and spreading them around — mostly wood poppies, hostas, bluebells, and...
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Corona Garden Diary 5/2: Loss
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight. – Marcus Aurelius I’ve lost another Japanese maple. This is the third. I’m sure you’re not too busy to listen to my tragic history with...
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