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By joenesgarden, 6 months and 9 days ago

A Seventeenth Century New England Garden

To fulfill one of my landscape design lessons, I sunk my imagination into what the gardening life of a female settler at Plimoth Plantation might be. I needed to design a small garden to show key characteristics of an authentic garden set in a period of my choosing. I've long been fascinated by the survival skills learned and adopted by 17th century New England colonists - even tried my hand at braiding onions and garlic - so I opted to develop a series of garden beds indicative of this time.

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By joenesgarden, 7 months and 5 days ago

Mornings in the garden

Are you among the gardeners who make morning coffee strolls through your gardens? I am. Not only is this a wonderful way to begin each day, but you can observe so much by quietly wandering among your flowering and edible plants. Just you, a wakening cup of coffee, the birds, and bees and other pollinators.  With sharp eyes and ears, and no other distractions, you pick up all sorts of details you might otherwise miss.

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By joenesgarden, 7 months and 30 days ago

Keep gardens neat looking with deadheading

As a garden coach and personal gardener most of my springtime gardening work is done in clients' gardens. Gardening at home happens in tidbits of time. Fortunately, I only need tidbits of time to keep up with deadheading. Many clients and gardening friends have questions about deadheading – gardeners' term for removing of spent flowers. But careful attention to how a perennial flowers offers clues to how to deadhead. You don't want to cut down all green growth since perennials use the greenery to produce energy to survive. But unless you plan to harvest seeds from a specific perennial, allowing it to go to seed is simply taxing the plant's energy for no good gardening reason. So I expend a fair portion of my home gardening time removing spent blossoms. Beside ensuring perennials don't waste good energy on seed production, deadheading keeps the gardens looking fresh and allows currently blooming flowers to take center stage.

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By joenesgarden, 8 months and 8 days ago

A Gardening Oops: Landscape Fabric

We've reached the first of the month again. It's time for me to share one of the blunders I've made in my thirty-plus years of planting, pruning, and in-the-soil gardening in Connecticut's zone 6a. I call these first-of-the-month confessions Gardening Oops – or GOOPs for short. It's a monthly meme I started more than two years ago. You can join this confessional. After all we all make mistakes. What's important is learning from them. I share mine hoping you will learn something from my mistakes. After reading my GOOPs for June 2011, you can share a GOOPs of your own.

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By joenesgarden, 9 months and 4 days ago

Land Care of the Present; For the Future

«Organically managed landscapes are designed to protect the diversity of the land and its surroundings …» – NOFA Standards for Organic Land Care, pg 1.

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  • Misjudged collaboration causes an NWF GOOPs:
    • joenesgarden: Jean, I'm glad I could bring you updated news regarding NWF's GOOPs. I agree that the NWF has some credibility rebuilding to accomplish.
    • Jean: Joene, I had seen all the posts about the Scott's-NWF "partnership" but had missed the turnaround news; thanks for bringing me up to date. In these times when ordinary people often feel powerless, it's good to know that popular outrage made a real difference. (I think it's going to take more, though, for NWF to...
    • joenesgarden: Debbie, NWF's GOOPs certainly seemed to be an eye opener for many NWF collaborators. Only time will tell whether NWF's reputation is sullied.
    • Debbie/GardenofPossibilities: Joene, What a good example of a major GOOPs. As Laurrie noted, it's unbelievable that NWF never mentioned the groundswell of outrage as a factor in the decision to end the partnership. I guess regadless of how/why it happened, most people are pleased it's over. BTW, thanks for the shout-out.
    • joenesgarden: Laurrie, The NWF's GOOPs may direct more followers to local wildlife-protecting and environmental organizations. This would be a good thing.
    • Laurrie: Talk about a gardening oops, this was a monster one. Absolute debacle. It's interesting that when they rescinded the partnership they blamed it on the lawsuits and gave no credit to the groundswell of public outrage. Never mentioned that at all. Unbelievable. My OOPS is on my blog today and...
  • Connecticut’s new planting zones:
    • joenesgarden: Jean, I think all seasoned gardeners understand zone map recommendations are no substitute for knowing your property, as your experience with temperature extremes in your Maine garden illustrates. I'm honored you named me as one of your Versatile Bloggers. I would participate if not for the sharing rules ... thanks anyway. I hope...
    • Jean: Joene, I was just looking at the new hardiness zones for Maine, and it brought home your point about knowing your own garden conditions. On the new map, my town has been moved from the boundary of zones 4b and 5a firmly into 5b. But the low temperature for zone 5b is -15F, and I...

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