Jenny Rose Carey
Dazzling Plants, Design Ideas, and Proven Techniques for Your Shady Garden
National Native Plant Month This lovely quote is about Sanguinaria canadensis, or bloodroot. I am using this example as one of the plants that is native to my area here in eastern Pennsylvania. I love the way that the author, whose first name is Frances, describes the fragile nature of …
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View from the terrace at Longbarn on a spring day. The History of Longbarn Garden Longbarn Garden is located in the Weald of Kent near the town of Sevenoaks. It is steeped in twentieth century horticultural history because it was the garden of Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold …
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In the News: Garden Tours I would like to invite you to both of my Northview Garden Open Days. The April date will be for daffodils and spring ephemerals and the June date will be cool-season annuals and biennials. The tours will take place rain or shine so in the event of rain please wear …
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In the News: Garden Toursand Online Lectures I love this February quote from Henry Mitchell about taking time to enjoy your garden rather than thinking of all the things that you should be doing in it. I am not sure what type of pest he is thinking that we become if we are not contemplating …
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Have you ever wished you could grow flowers from seed? How about poppies and larkspur? What does a seed need for germination? Blue cornflowers are an easy-to -grow flower seed. Direct seed sowing – straight into the garden I think that one of the reasons that gardeners give up on seed …
Sowing Seeds of Thought Here we are at the start of another year. 2024—how can that be? In the quest to look forward and not back I am going all out with plans for seed starting. I have always loved growing plants from seeds but now it is an obsession. It is so much cheaper than buying …
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Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson’s Kentish garden The view of Vita Sackville-West’s writing tower dominates all corners of the garden. Vita Sackville-West’s Garden at Sissinghurst is a garden that I am very familiar with since it is in the south-east county of Kent in England where I …
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Fences and Hedges—Permeable Barriers The end of the year is rolling around and with it comes thoughts of gardening highs and lows of the past year. I love the way that Canon Ellacombe expresses his thoughts about the garden in December in the quote above. He was the vicar of a small parish …
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Some books that I recommend for winter reading Another year has passed, and many books have been read here at Northview. Despite my family members occasionally muttering, ‘do you think that you have enough gardening books now?’, I continue to buy, collect (some might say hoard), and read …
American Thanksgiving brings thankfulness to the mind This is the month that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday. Has your garden made you happy or joyful this year? Learn what I am thankful for and then compile your own list. Please let me know what you are thankful …
