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Do you have a problem with deer getting into your garden? Boy, do I understand how frustrating that can be! While in England last month, we saw a great idea that will afford your garden some deer protection without having to build a tall fence. Interested? We saw this idea at Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which is one of my very […]
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In May, I led a group of 28 folks on an English gardens tour. We had so much fun! Recently, I’ve been writing posts about each individual day of the trip. But for today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review, I wrote a feature story about the trip for their Travel section. Here is a link to it: Glorious gardens. Or you […]
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Ay yi yi! This has been a frustrating season for me because I’m really battling some aggressive plants in my flower beds. So I decided this would be the perfect topic for this week’s garden column. Here’s a link to it in today’s edition of The Spokesman-Review: Aggressive plants test patience. (or you can read my column lower in this […]
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(This is the 9th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On May 22nd, we visited two gardens: Sissinghurst Castle Garden and Nymans Gardens. Everyone in my group was particularly excited about visiting Sissinghurst because it is definitely a bucket-list garden. Getting to Sissinghurst required a great deal of planning, though! Despite making […]
Read more(This is the 8th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On Monday, May 21st, we had a long, busy day but oh, what fun we had! We began with a visit to the iconic Great Dixter (pictured at left). The we wandered through the village of Rye, mainly for the purpose of […]
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I’m really excited about today’s garden column because it is a profile of Great Dixter. If you’ve never heard of this amazing English garden, you will definitely want to put it on your bucket list! It was one of our stops on the English Gardens Tour that I led from May 16-27, 2018. Here is a link to the column […]
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(This is the 7th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) In my previous post, I wrote about our visit to Wisley Gardens, which was absolutely fantastic. That was on Sunday, May 20th. In the afternoon, we also visited Chartwell House. I wanted to share a bit of information about this with you […]
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(This is the 6th in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) The garden we visited on the fourth full day of our trip was magnificent! I had heard of Wisley Gardens before — probably in a magazine or on a garden show — but this was my first time there. No one in […]
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Roses are truly the Queen of the Garden. And I’m pretty sure no one would disagree with me about that. After all, they are absolutely gorgeous, bloom for an extraordinarily long time, and are a favorite of just about every gardener on this planet! On June 23rd, they’ll be in the spotlight for the 71st annual Spokane Rose Show. That’s […]
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(This is the fifth in a series of blog posts about the 2018 English Gardens Tour I led.) On Saturday, May 19, our tour group got to explore a lovely Cotswolds village. Then we explored one of my favorite gardens, Hidcote. The Cotswolds is a delightful region in south central England that is extremely desirable to live in. I would […]
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