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Haikuesday – Hummingbird Seen – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. Haikuesday – Hummingbird Seen. May 17, 2016. May 16, 2016. Happy Haikuesday, everyone! Time for some poetry in miniature. Get your creativity in gear and share a tiny moment with us today. Heard, then seen at my feeder. An opal on wings. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). You ar...
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35 Years of Gardening – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. 35 Years of Gardening. May 19, 2016. May 19, 2016. Http:/ www.finegardening.com/35-years-gardening. I thought I’d share what a 35-year old garden looks like, thanks to Fine Gardening magazine. Not technically a heritage garden, but you can see the future “old garden” in this lovely spot in Port Orchard, Washington. Enjoy! Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window). Tea An...
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Haikuesday: Petals in the Breeze – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. Haikuesday: Petals in the Breeze. June 7, 2016. June 7, 2016. Veils of blush rose petals on. Bumblebee wedding.”. It’s almost time to bid adieu to my ‘Climbing Buff Beauty’ rose for the year. The wave of heat we’ve had this weekend is bringing her glory to a close. The breeze keeps sending little parties of pale petals dancing across the garden. I discovered I may not have to say goodbye to this beauty for the year yet – a good pruning in the next few weeks sho...
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Haikuesday – Whose Garden Is It? – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. Haikuesday – Whose Garden Is It? May 31, 2016. May 30, 2016. Thinks I can’t see him lurking. His garden, not mine. Happy Haikuesday, everyone! Meet my head gardener, Ben. And let’s get clear – this is his garden, and I am his volunteer gardener. I do it for head butts. Ben loves the garden more than life itself. It’s his place to hide; stalk critters; graze; watch things I can’t see; smell the flowers. Buttercups growing taller than the iris foliage. Sinister coi...
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The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson – NYTimes.com – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. The Lost Gardens of Emily Dickinson – NYTimes.com. May 28, 2016. Http:/ mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/science/emily-dickinson-lost-gardens.html? R=3&referer=http:/ m.facebook.com/. Sunday, May 29 is the 130th anniversay of Emily Dickinson’s passing. Archaeologists are hard at work restoring her orchard and garden at her home in Amherst. This fascinating article gives some insight into the process of restoring a lost garden. Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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Reference Library – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. There’s no shortage of excellent books on the subject of heritage gardening, covering everything from flowers to vegetables, Canadian gardens to English, herbs to roses. Got any personal faves? Let me know and I’ll add it to the list. Gardening With Heirloom Seeds: Tried and true flowers, fruits and vegetables for a new generation. Rhetoric and Roses: A History of Canadian Gardening –. A History of Canadian Gardening –. The Victorian Kitchen Garden. Canadian, a fave.
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Heirloom Plants 101 – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. June 5, 2016. June 4, 2016. When I see one of the old English flowers grown of those days, blooming now in my garden, from an unbroken chain of blossom to seed of nearly three centuries, I thank the flower for all that its forebears did to comfort my forebears, and I cherish it with added tenderness. Alice Morse Earle, American historian and author, 1901. But what is a heritage plant, exactly? Introduction date can also define an heirloom, but it gets confusing here&...
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Haikuesday – I Spy Iris – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. Haikuesday – I Spy Iris. May 24, 2016. Good Haikuesday, everyone! Iris season is almost over, and I’ve delighted in catching glimpses of these lovely party girls of the plant world as I drive about on errands. I rediscovered this haiku that I wrote three years ago. It was inspired by the dismaying sight of my beloved irises facedown in the dirt after the downpour that inevitably seems to arrive every May just as they are in their full glory. Butter and velvet petals.
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Iconic Garden Reblooms After $3 Million Restoration – Yesterday's Garden
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Reviving heritage gardens and plants. Iconic Garden Reblooms After $3 Million Restoration. June 20, 2016. June 20, 2016. Naumkeag’s famous Blue Steps, restored to their former glory. Photo from article. Were there records kept by the past owners of the property seed and plant purchases, photographs, notes, maps? Is there anyone still living who remembers the gardens as they once were? It’s an archaeological dig of a different kind, but a dig nonetheless. When I was 9, I wanted to be an archaeologist....