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Oriental Poppies (Papaver orientale) in the Egg Garden
Midsummer Garden Party at Fordhook Farm featuring Hydrangeas and guest speaker Michael Dirr
Burpees’ Fordhook Farm in Doylestown, PA
Friday and Saturday, July 10-11
Open from 10 am – 4 pm each day
Take a tour of Fordhook Farm and see our featured varieties of beautiful Hydrangea. The Midsummer Garden speaker will be:
Michael Dirr – Hydrangeas and Other Flowering Shrubs: What’s New and the Best of Old, from Abelia to Virburnum
For more information, click here. If you’re not familiar with Michael Dirr, he is a legend and one of the world’s foremost experts on trees, hydrangeas, and viburnum. I highly recommend his books.
Some of the peonies in bloom throughout the gardens
Pictures of Piet Oudolf’s High Line Gardens
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Piet Oudolf’s High Line Gardens Open in New York City), the blog inhabitat: design will save the world, has great pictures of the gardens here:
http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/06/09/new-yorks-high-line-park-in-the-sky-opens-today/
NatureFind: how to find public parks, campsites, and gardens by zip code
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Green Hour: how to find public parks, campsites, and gardens by zip code), the creators of Green Hour sent me the link to their updated website, NatureFind, with even more features, including integration with Google Maps:
Styrax japonicus tree and flowers in bloom on Goldberry Hill
Zombie Blogs: Why 95% of Blogs Are Abandoned
From Douglas Quenqua in The New York Times:
“According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream — or at least an ambition — unfulfilled.
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…Not all fallow blogs die from lack of reader interest. Some bloggers find themselves too busy — what with, say, homework and swim practice, or perhaps even housework and parenting. Others graduate to more immediate formats, like Twitter and Facebook. And a few — gasp — actually decide to reclaim some smidgen of personal privacy.”
For the full article, click here.
Piet Oudolf’s High Line Gardens Open in New York City
As a follow-up to my prior post (heirloom gardener: Great Blog Posts About Piet Oudolf), the High Line in New York City opened this week. From Nicolai Ouroussoff’s architectural review in The New York Times:
“A subtle play between contemporary and historical design, industrial decay and natural beauty sets the tone. The surface of the deck, for example, is made of concrete planks meant to echo the linearity of the old tracks. The path slips left and right as it advances, so that at some points you are right up against the edge of the railing and at others you are enveloped in the gardens.
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And those gardens have a wild, ragged look that echoes the character of the old abandoned track bed when it was covered with weeds, just a few years ago. Wildflowers and prairie grasses mix with Amelanchier bushes, their branches speckled with red berries. Mr. Corner designed planters to hold the taller trees, and the Gansevoort entry is marked by a cluster of birches. On Saturday the gardens were swarming with bees, butterflies and birds. I half expected to see Bambi.”
For the full article, click here.
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