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It seems everywhere I look these days, someone is writing about the impact deer are having on homeowners’ gardens and also on the balance between native and non-native plants in local ecosystems. If you’re one of the lucky ones who does not have to deal with deer munching on your plants, consider yourself blessed. And [...]

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*** Enter to win a free bottle of Deer Off  simply by leaving a comment below*** Several months ago, I received an email from Havahart, the makers of Deer Off deer repellant, asking if I’d like a free sample of their product to try in my garden. Never one to turn down a freebie, and constantly [...]

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Chasmanthium latifolium.  If you’ve ever heard of it, you probably know it by one of its many common names…Northern sea oats, quaking oats, Indian wood oats or flathead oats.  I call it Northern Sea Oats and I was first drawn to this plant because of its unique sea heads.  When I started looking into it’s site [...]

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Today was the annual fall plant sale at the Bartlett Arboretum, an event gardeners in and around Stamford, CT eagerly await.  I have been going to the Bartlett’s plant sales for years and I always seem to find some interesting treasures.  Today I purchased a Buttercup Winterhazel (Corylopsis pauciflora).   As I look around my [...]

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Back in June, I wrote a post about my Tuscarora crape myrtle which was supposed to be cold-hardy to zone 6 but appeared to have died back during the winter.  When I wrote the original post, there was a bit of new growth coming from the root ball but all the trunks and branches had [...]

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Several weeks ago a mother robin started building a nest in our blue spruce shrub (Picea pungens) located right outside a kitchen window and the backdoor to the garden.  While this is not the quietest location in the garden, it seems to be a preferred nesting spot, especially for robins.  The mother robin laid three [...]

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In September 2008,  I bought a Lagerstroemia indica ‘Tuscarora’ (Tuscarora crape myrtle) for our Stamford, CT (zone 6) garden.  I’d wanted a crape myrtle for some time but could never find a cold-hardy specimen that I liked and was willing to spend the money on since I suspected I was taking a chance by trying to [...]

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Several years ago I decided to use parts of my garden as a ‘test garden’ so I could see how plants behaved under different growing conditions (can plants labeled as full sun actually thrive in part shade), to see how placement of plants affects deer browsing (I’m beginning to think there is something to the [...]

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