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How to Make Your Own Evergreen Holiday Decorations

Yesterday marked exactly one week until Christmas and we are in the midst of Hanukkah. Many of us are busily getting ready for or already enjoying the holidays which seem to sneak up on us each year. This time of year is full of holiday traditions that have been either passed down from generation to generation or that […]

Putting Your Garden To Bed For The Winter

This is the time of year, especially with the recent dipping temperatures, that we start thinking about all that there is to do around the house and in the gardens to prepare for the long winter ahead of us. There are two schools of thought when it comes to dealing with the garden in the […]

Frighteningly Beautiful Plants for this Halloween!

Japanese Lantern (Physalis alkekengi) This beautiful plant has an orange papery covering over it’s fruit, which resemble Jack-o- lanterns. This is a perennial that is native across southern Asia and is widely grown all over the world. The fruit can be used in cut flower arrangements and dries nicely. In Japan during the Bon Festival […]

Art In The Landscape

In honor of the South End Art Hop in Burlington, VT this weekend, I thought I would write a bit about Art in the Landscape! You can view art in many different ways. From Dan Snow’s beautiful dry laid stone sculptures to Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s fabric installations and Patrick Dougherty’s stick structures. Who are each […]