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Azaleas and rhododendrons

5:41 PM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

There are 5 rhododendrons, which I inherited from the previous owner, and 4 azaleas, which I added, on my property. Rhododendron by my front window The one by my sidewalk must be at least 40 -50 years old, judging from......

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Irises

11:21 PM Tue, May 26, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Irises have been in bloom in my garden for about a week. There are roughly 200 - 300 species of Iris in spectrum of colors. Most of mine are bearded Iris, in all shades of blue to purple, yellow and......

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Star of Bethlehem

11:29 AM Mon, May 25, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

There are times, especially in the recent years that I wish I had made a catalog of when and where I bought then planted certain plants or bulbs. I wonder if my Star of Bethlehem came as plants, bulbs......

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Peony trees and shrubs

12:24 PM Sat, May 23, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (8)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

I used to think of peony as an old-fashioned flower, perhaps because peony flowers are often seen in the classic Gauguin and Renoir paintings and in ancient Chinese paintings and drawings. I also think of peony as being a......

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Flutterby: Butterflies in bloom at Roger Williams Park / video

4:50 PM Fri, May 22, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pamela Reinsel Cotter    Email

Providence Journal video / Kathy Borchers The 2,100-square-foot greenhouse at the Roger Williams Park Zoo is filled with hundreds of North America's most beautiful butterfly species and striking nectar plants. Tim French, deputy director and curator, talks about the......

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Amy Stewart, poison plants author and garden blogger, speaks in Barrington Saturday

8:43 AM Fri, May 22, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Just before the opening of her summerlong exhibit Wicked Plants at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, author and garden blogger (Dirt, Garden Rant), Amy Stewart will be stopping by the Barrington Public Library Saturday at 3 p.m. Wicked Plants: A Book......

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Common Bluebell, Hyacinthoides non-scripta

8:27 PM Wed, May 20, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Common Bluebell -- aka Bluebell and English Bluebell -- usually bloom around May. I could not remember when I planted the first group in my back garden. Since then I have divided them many times and planted them in the......

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Bleeding heart, Dicentra spectabilis

6:03 PM Mon, May 18, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

No other plants have perfect heart-shape flowers like bleeding heart. The outer petals resemble a heart while the inner petals resemble a drop of blood. Bleeding heart is an old-fashioned and traditional favorite to many people, especially for the......

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The lilac tree

11:19 AM Fri, May 15, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

My only lilac tree was planted about 20 years ago. It was one of my 'must have' trees after the dogwood and Japanese weeping cherry. Lilac belongs in the olive family (Oleaceae), genus syringa, which derives from the word......

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Camassia, aka 'Wild Hyacinth' and 'Indian Hyacinth'

7:47 PM Thu, May 14, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Camassia has been in my garden for several years, blooming always in May. It belongs in the family Agavaceae. Camassia is a perennial plant with long grass-like leaves and violet blue star-shaped flowers on multi-flower stems much taller than the......

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Lily of the valley, May 'birth flower'

5:30 PM Wed, May 13, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Convallaria majalis or lily of the valley usually bloom in the month of May. Majalis means 'that which belongs to May', according to Birth Flowers Guide. It is also known as "Our Lady's tears" from the Christian legend that it......

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Brunnera macrophylla (Jack Frost)

3:43 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Brunnera 'Jack Frost' -- also called Siberian bugloss -- won first place for Best New Perennial of the Year in Holland at the Plantarium Fair in 2001. I found my Jack Frost in late spring of 2007 and bought......

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The crown imperial, a bright spot on a rainy day

12:35 PM Tue, May 05, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

My fritillaria imperialis has been blooming for a week or two. A few bulbs were planted in the fall, but only two came up and one did not mature to the flowering stage. I had a previous experience with fritillaria......

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Viburnum, a fragrant flowering shrub

5:21 PM Mon, May 04, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Back in 1988, I was introduced to viburnum by a nice man who came to fix my fence. He told me that I should plant a few viburnums on my property and that I would love its fragrance. I, known......

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The many varieties of tulips

7:42 PM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (7)
By Pat Feinstein    Email

Do you know that there are about 150 species of tulips? Do you know that there are over 3,000 different registered varieties of cultivated tulips? Do you know that tulips are the third-most-popular flowers after the rose and chrysanthemum? Tulips......

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Free subscription to Organic Gardening magazine

9:39 AM Sun, May 03, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Free subscription to Organic Gardening Magazine at this Stonyfield Farms link. Found this in a GardenWeb posting. Signup has optional checkbox to accept "special offers." I gave an email address I use for such signups.......

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