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Welcome to the gardens here at Thrums End. These include the kitchen garden, herb garden, pond and pond garden, the dooryard garden, the shade/woodland area, and the way-too-big border. And there are the gardens that flourish in my imagination but so far have little chance of being realized....... garden pic

I am eternally grateful to the forces of nature that endowed my little 1.17 acre with wonderful, glacial-lakebed soil, and (touch wood) no deer. Both of these conditions are rare up here in the Hudson Valley. Ever since I read Sara Stein's 'Noah's Garden' I have been focussing my garden efforts on making not only beauty for myself and my friends but also making habitat for bird, beast and insect. This means planting with Northeastern native plants almost exclusively(okay, 85%- I had to bring my seed-grown hellebores with me from Brooklyn! and I exempt pots) in the areas outside of the vegetable and herb gardens. I have planted about 100 native trees and shrubs since I started gardening here in 1993, including such beauties as Redbud (Cercis canadensis) and Bottlebrush Buckeye (Æsculus parviflora.) Fifteen years on they are putting on a fine show.



The native plants blooming now-
Release the hounds!- updated 05/01/08

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Goosefoot Maple
Acer pennsylvanicum
Virginia Bluebell
Mertensia virginia
Serviceberry
Amelanchier laevis
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Andromeda 'Brower's Beauty'
Andromeda x 'Brower's Beauty
Black-leaved Chokecherry
Aronia melanocarpa
Wild Ginger
Asarum canadensis
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Bloodroot
Sanguinaria canadensis
Carolina Allspice
Calycanthus caroliniana
Redbud
Cercis canadensis
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Blue Cohosh
Caulophyllum thalictroides
Fothergilla
Fothergilla gardenerii
Silverbell
Halesia montana
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Nodding Mandarin
Disporum maculatum
Dutchman's Breeches
Dicentra culcullata
Marsh Marigold
Caltha palustris
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Clove Currant
Ribes odorata
Red-flowered Currant
Ribes 'Texas Red'
Spicebush
Lindera benzoin
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Wood Poppy
Stylophorum canadensis
Red-flowered Currant
Ribes 'Texas Red'
Wakerobin
Trillium erectum
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Lowbush Blueberry
Vaccinium angustifolia



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