Friday, September 17, 2010
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These are my observations about gardens, people, and outdoor miscellany. I live in Durham, North Carolina.
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- biennials (1)
- by design (1)
- clouds (3)
- containers (1)
- country gardening (7)
- county co-ops / agri. extension (3)
- crape murder (1)
- do it yourself (2)
- downtown Durham (6)
- Drought (1)
- drought tolerant/low maintenance (14)
- Duke (20)
- Duke; parking (1)
- early spring gardens (1)
- fake plants (4)
- fall gardens (14)
- garden chores (2)
- garden writing (10)
- gardening: fail (3)
- historic preservation (13)
- late spring gardens (4)
- late summer gardens (9)
- late winter gardens (2)
- native plants (8)
- North Carolina nurseries (3)
- November (1)
- other people's gardens (8)
- other people's wwws (14)
- outdoor miscellany (12)
- pass-alongs (23)
- photography (2)
- Piedmont Picks (4)
- public art (2)
- public gardens (13)
- rock gardens (1)
- Sarah Duke Garden terraces; summer gardens (1)
- Sarah Duke Garden terraces; winter gardens (3)
- Sarah Duke Gardens: Culberson Asiatic Arboretum (2)
- Sarah Duke Gardens: White Garden; summer gardens (1)
- seed companies (1)
- shrubs (9)
- Southern trees (8)
- Southern trees; historic preservation (1)
- spring gardens (13)
- Stagville (2)
- summer gardens (17)
- urban forestry (1)
- will garden for food (16)
- winter containers (1)
- winter gardens (12)
- winter solstice (1)
- yellow (1)
piedmont plots: an introduction
This site is mostly about ornamental horticulture. But I hope to appeal to both non-gardeners and green thumbs.
Sometimes I may hammer out something about Durham neighborhoods, growing vegetables, or Nature. But chances are, most of my posts will be observations about different landscapes I encounter: a tree here, a bush there, some rumored bulbs in an abandoned garden somewhere else.
I have been living and gardening in zone 7 since the fall of 2004. This time in the garden has turned out to be a mostly zone 8 experience. Global warming may not be great for the polar ice-caps but maybe it has been part of what's kept my lantana and gardenias safe over the last few winters?
I am not a hard-core environmentalist or strict organic gardener but I do like native plants as well as my shrinking lawn.
I love old fashioned pass-along plants and the stories they hold.
Unless otherwise credited, Victor Gordon is responsible for all the writing and photography here.
Sometimes I may hammer out something about Durham neighborhoods, growing vegetables, or Nature. But chances are, most of my posts will be observations about different landscapes I encounter: a tree here, a bush there, some rumored bulbs in an abandoned garden somewhere else.
I have been living and gardening in zone 7 since the fall of 2004. This time in the garden has turned out to be a mostly zone 8 experience. Global warming may not be great for the polar ice-caps but maybe it has been part of what's kept my lantana and gardenias safe over the last few winters?
I am not a hard-core environmentalist or strict organic gardener but I do like native plants as well as my shrinking lawn.
I love old fashioned pass-along plants and the stories they hold.
Unless otherwise credited, Victor Gordon is responsible for all the writing and photography here.
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1 comment:
Victor,
Just ask my brother about having half a lung removed. he is 55 and in terrible shape, still smoking he started at 12 years old..
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