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2013 Winter Interest Plants
Galanthus ‘Brenda Troyle’ is one of the most robust and fragrant snowdrops in the Cresson garden. This may be my last post that focuses on snowdrops, and I am sure some readers will rejoice. I am...
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Winterthur Part 1: Late Winter 2013
In early March, the courtyard behind the house at Winterthur is completely filled with snow crocus, C. tomasinianus. It is worth visiting in late winter just to see this sight. . Each year I choose an...
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Fall 2013 Snowdrops and Camellias
I have decided to move the Nursery Happenings portion of my posts to the top so that my customers can have easy access to this information. I hope it won’t be too bothersome to my non-local readers,...
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The Un-Common Snowdrop
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders. All snowdrops are great...
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The Sochi Snowdrop
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders now for mail order and pick up at...
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Top 25 Snowdrop Plants Part One
Nursery News: The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is posted here, and we are taking orders now for mail order and pick up at...
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Top 25 Snowdrop Plants Part Two
Nursery News: Charles Cresson’s Winter Interest Plants Seminar is available for registration here. The Friday February 21 session has a few spaces left and the Monday Februaury 24 session has plenty...
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Snowdrops at Winterthur and Here
Nursery News: Charles Cresson’s Winter Interest Seminar has been rescheduled to March 23, to register click here. The 2014 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like...
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Winter Interest Plants 2014
Nursery News: Carolyn’s Shade Gardens’ second sale of the year featuring early spring-blooming shade plants like hellebores, unusual bulbs, and pulmonaria is tentatively scheduled for April 11 and 12....
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Letting Go Part 2: Naturalizing Bulbs
Nursery News: Our 2014 Miniature Hosta Catalogue is now on line, click here. It lists all the wonderful little hostas that will be available at the nursery and by mail. Our 2014 Spring Shrub Offer is...
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What’s Ornamental in Late Fall?
Gorgeous fall color of Kousa dogwood ‘Wolf Eyes’ In my last post, ‘What’s Blooming in Mid-Fall?” (click here to read), I explained that fall has three seasons for me: the early season is September, mid...
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Do All Snowdrops Look Alike?
‘Wasp’ certainly has all the elements of a typical snowdrop, but its long petals and unusual markings make it look just like the flying insect when the wind blows. Available in our 2015 catalogue...
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New Snowdrops for 2015
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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Companion Plants for Snowdrops
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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New Snowdrop Book
The 2015 Snowdrop Catalogue, featuring snowdrops and other winter interest plants like cyclamen and hellebores, is on the sidebar, and we are taking orders. To access the catalogue, please click here....
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Snowdrops at Winterthur and Here 2015
Thankfully, there’s a snowy landscape at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens today. Before I get to current events at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens, I want to encourage you to come to this year’s Bank to Bend lecture at...
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Late Fall Interest at Carolyn’s Shade Gardens
The sunrise lights up the heavy frost outlining the semi-evergreen leaves of native sweetbay magnolia. At Carolyn’s Shade Gardens in southeastern Pennsylvania, US, colorful fall foliage is mostly gone...
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My Snowdrop Article in Fine Gardening
Fine Gardening February 2016 You will all want to rush to your nearest purveyor of elegant magazines—Barnes and Noble in our area—and pick up the current issue (February 2016) of Fine Gardening. I...
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Just Relax and Enjoy the Flowers
Even though praecox means developing early, ‘Praecox’ Christmas rose hellebore is one of the main season varieties that bloom later in January or February. Here it is in mid-December. Like much of the...
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Snowdrops Are Early This Year
‘Godfrey Owen’ has a very unusual form with six outer and inner petals (segments) instead of the usual three. As I mentioned in the last post, southeastern Pennsylvania, US, zone 6 to 7, has been...
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