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Delighted, Bettylen

July 19, 2020 - The hot weather is settling in for the duration, and it'll be a lake day later. For now, however, I'm enjoying the rapid...
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Better late than never

June 30, 2020 - Ordinarily, I'd have written about the Catalpa tree and its marvelous flowers a week or two ago when, as part of our ann...
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Solstice celebration

June 21, 2019 - Every year around what is today actually the first day of summer, we celebrate the solstice with a road trip to the nort...
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Snow and rice

May 02, 2019 - Many, many years ago, I discovered a mail-order nursery in northwestern Connecticut known as White Flower Farm. It was m...
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Botanical yard sale

June 22, 2018 - Summer is officially here and that can only mean one thing: time to get in the car and drive 90-plus miles northwest to...
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Nature's "White Flower Farm"

June 18, 2017 - There's the Moon Garden at White Flower Farm—a delicious all-white planting that every gardener would like to duplicate—...
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Road trip, White Flower Farm

June 16, 2017 - If it's the last Friday of spring, then it must be time for an annual road trip to White Flower Farm in northwest Connec...
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Premier garden

June 17, 2016 - For the past few years, we've celebrated the arrival of the solstice with a road trip to Litchfield, Connecticut, the ho...
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Two graces

June 19, 2015 - With the wheelchair, the crutch, and anything else we could think of to enable my wife to be more or less mobile, we hea...
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Low-rent gems

May 21, 2015 - I fell in love with Tree Peonies—a misnomer, since they don't get more than six feet high—at first sight. I can't exactl...
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