This isn’t us. We just used a large pair of tree sized pruning shears. The weather got nice enough to actually do a little gardening today.  It was really nice to get out into the garden after so many weeks of cold, cold, cold.  There wasn’t much we could do.  The ground is still pretty [...]

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Thank you for taking the time to visit “A Garden in the City”.   We’ve been gardening for a long time and thought we might write about it.   We hope you’ve enjoyed it.    But we have other interests as well.   For one, we love to travel.  True, we often visit gardens wherever we go, but we [...]

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  Our garden has several defining elements that govern how the garden looks all year long.  At the back of the yard, along the property line, are several Leyland Cypress trees that are at least a dozen years old.  They serve as both background and barrier, effectively blocking out the view of the houses behind [...]

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     Garden catalog time is upon us.  We sit by the fire and look at all the beautiful possibilities that await us, come Spring.  But we rarely even visit the yard this time of year, especially when it’s as cold as it has been lately.  Certainly no early evening tours with a glass of [...]

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The best gardens are gardens that look good all year long, even without flowers, even covered with snow.

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We planted several trees a couple of years ago.  They’re doing well.  It’s amazing really, how many trees we have on a just fifth of an acre.   We tend to have Japanese trees.  I know we should plant natives, but they just get too big.  So we have Japanese maple and dogwood and cherry trees.  [...]

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