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By joenesgarden, 6 months and 5 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, 8 months and 25 days ago

Concept Garden: Herbs and Butterflies

It's been a while since I posted about my educational journey towards certification as a landscape designer. I'm still plugging away, moving around and through some roadblocks life dropped in my path, and my journey is taking longer than I want, but anything worth having is worth working for … so I continue to follow my Papa's advice to keep dancin' or, in this case keep studyin'.

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By joenesgarden, 1 year and 6 months ago

Landscape design styles – part 1

One of my recently completed landscape design lessons required researching three major landscape styles and submitting a report on my findings and how each style - Paradise Gardens, the English Landscape Movement, and Japanese Gardens - impacts modern garden design.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years ago

Plotting along, but winter still rules

fresh snow 02-2010 measuring tapes The tools?  Paper, pencil, measuring tapes, and because the ground's frozen state will not allow me to drive stakes in as markers, a willing husband.  He held one end of the measuring tape while I held the other and carefully recorded each measurement for later use.

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By joenesgarden, 2 years ago

Lesson: don’t give away ideas you hope to market

So translating design ideas into writing may not be as seamless for me as I expected … at least not if my goal is to convince someone that they desperately need my ideas over another designer.  Those who have followed this blog before know that I'm taking a landscape design course.  It's a long sought goal for me to have a real piece of paper designating me certified as a landscape designer.  Those new here can catch up with my previous posts.

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  • Misjudged collaboration causes an NWF GOOPs:
    • 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...
    • joenesgarden: Debbie, I think the map is useful for new gardeners just beginning to understand what hardiness zones mean. It will also be very helpful to gardeners facing a move and garden and landscape designers who work in many different locations.
    • Debbie/GardenofPossibilities: Joene, I love the new interactive map. I'm still a zone 6b but 7a is creeping close.

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