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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.......  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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Acer pennsylvanicum |
Mertensia virginia |
Amelanchier laevis |
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Andromeda x 'Brower's Beauty |
Aronia melanocarpa |
Asarum canadensis |
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Sanguinaria canadensis |
Calycanthus caroliniana |
Cercis canadensis |
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Caulophyllum thalictroides |
Fothergilla gardenerii |
Halesia montana |
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Disporum maculatum |
Dicentra culcullata |
Caltha palustris |
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Ribes odorata |
Ribes 'Texas Red' |
Lindera benzoin |
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Stylophorum canadensis |
Ribes 'Texas Red' |
Trillium erectum |
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Vaccinium angustifolia |
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 The whole shootin' match- Site Design, Graphics, and Images unless otherwise noted: © P.M.Law/T.E.A.S./ MMIII & MMVI Email: |
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