Green Acre #58: Garden of Misery

June 14, 2017

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…place. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird Stephanie, when she’s not hunkered down in the slough of despond, writes about gardening hits and misses. You can read all her Green Acre columns by typing Green Acre into the Search field at the top…

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Green Acre #59: Lighting Up the Night Garden

June 21, 2017

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…be. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird Stephanie writes about gardens and the outdoor life and decorating same: “It’s crap on crap—my favorite thing!” To read Stephanie’s earlier columns, type Green Acre into the Search box at the top of the page.  …

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Green Acre #376: How to Create a City Garden

April 6, 2022

Nancy McKeon

…her friends an outdoor jungle-themed disco.” Good God, no! But when the focus is on gardens, they’re firmly rooted in their element. There are excellent chapters on creating cottage gardens, night gardens, perennial gardens, water features, scented gardens, roof gardens,…

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Green Acre #16: Of Pots, Friends and the U.S. Botanic Garden

August 10, 2016

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…way. But that’s another story. —Stephanie Cavanaugh Gardener Cavanaugh is writing a book on urban gardening. You can read all her earlier Green Acre columns by typing “Green Acre” in the Search box at the top right of the page….

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Green Acre #151: Don't Read This

May 29, 2019

Nancy McKeon

…from Sheboygan, Wisconsin’s Bookworm Gardens (gardens inspired by children’s books), and the carnivorous plants that represent Atlanta’s Botanical Gardens—both catnip for kids; and Tucson’s exuberantly colorful Barrio Garden, which highlights the mingling of cultures in their Botanical Gardens. How magnificent…

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Green Acre #174: Inside the Great Outdoors

November 13, 2019

Nancy McKeon

…Inspired Garden Rooms” by Linda O’Keeffe. / Photo by Mark Ripepi. Designer Mark Ripepi calls hedges his preferred garden “structure.” Here in his upstate New York garden, pruned and notched boxwood shrubbery lends some privacy to a seating area. From…

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Green Acre #53: A Garden Feast for Mothers (and Others)

May 10, 2017

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…grin. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird Stephanie really loves gardens and gardening books. You can read a year’s worth of her columns (not all at one sitting) by typing Green Acre into the Search box at the top right of the page….

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Green Acre #62: The White Garden

July 12, 2017

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…tiresome. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird Stephanie writes about her garden and the gardens of others, as the mood hits her. You can read earlier Green Acre columns by typing Green Acre in the Search box at the top of the page….

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Green Acre #389: Too Green Is My Garden

July 13, 2022

Nancy McKeon

…to putter in the garden. Cool and very wet, with brief patches of dry—perfect for a little mid-summer (already?) renovation. At this point you know what’s working in the garden and what’s not. Whatever was supposed to come up is…

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Green Acre #153: 10 Garden Ideas . . .

June 12, 2019

Nancy McKeon

…as well to just jab about the garden. The Iyanna Market Umbrella is almost 9 feet wide and is on sale for $82.99 at Wayfair.com. It also comes in aqua, lime green and tan. In the more modestly priced, hundred-bucks-or-so…

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Green Acre #427: A Child's Verses of Garden

May 24, 2023

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…in my garden. This is the bee that sleeps on the rose in my garden. These are the hollyhocks, high above the ground, . . . marigolds orange and round . . . And so forth, adding zinnias in a…

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Green Acre #81: US Botanic Garden Hits the Road

December 6, 2017

Nancy McKeon

…(klezmer music, anyone?) go to www.usbg.com. —Stephanie Cavanaugh LittleBird “Stephanie Gardens” sometimes wanders beyond her garden to take in botanical sights elsewhere. To read earlier columns, type Green Acre into the Search box at the top of the page.  …

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Green Acre #224: Very-Last-Minute Gardener Gifts

December 23, 2020

Nancy McKeon

…from chair. Any garden lover would adore Flower Magazine. Every issue of this gorgeous glossy bimonthly is packed with dreamy homes and gardens, tips and tutorials—even when the garden in question is limited to the dining room table. If you…

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Green Acre #429: Going to Pot in the Garden

June 7, 2023

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…The photo has been there for years, and as it often happens (for me) some semblance of it comes to life, eventually. In this case it’s a garden heavily shaded by a tree of some sort, beneath it are greens—ferns…

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Green Acre #214: How Green Is My Garden

October 7, 2020

Nancy McKeon

…of Paradise?” “Yeah. I like thinking I’m someplace else, the tropics, the bubbling water in the pond, it’s like being in another world. It’s so green.” Green was pretty much it this year, the kwanzan cherry has spread like a…

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Green Acre #165: In a Garden Gladly

September 11, 2019

Nancy McKeon

Garden at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. Another view of the Iris Garden at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh. ‘WE NEED TO come back when the gardens are…

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Green Acre #67: Green Grows My Garden

August 16, 2017

Nancy McKeon

…Cavanaugh LittleBird Stephanie clearly suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder in summer, when her garden doesn’t do what she wants it to. You can read earlier columns by typing Green Acre into the Search box at the top of the screen….

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Green Acre #75: Make Way for the Winter Garden

October 18, 2017

Nancy McKeon

…Capitol Hill garden . . . sometimes. To read earlier columns, type Green Acre into the Search box at the top of the page. Pansies at Frager’s Hardware Garden Center on Capitol Hill in DC. / Photo by Stephanie Cavanaugh….

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