tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30333962823695007092024-03-13T11:19:11.343-04:00Juniper HillA blog chronicling the day-to-day misadventures of a country gardener. Topics include gardening, plants, horticulture, heritage breed farming, and life in a 19th century home in the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. Topics are organized around plants, notable gardens and gardeners, gardening events, garden art and photography, and recently published garden books.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger177125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-33324361120172628942015-02-19T23:07:00.000-05:002015-02-19T23:07:27.394-05:00We Have Moved<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Notes from Juniper Hill blog has moved to a new location and can now be found at <b>www.josephvalentine.com</b>, or by <b><a href="http://www.josephvalentine.com/journal/2015/1/19/welcome" target="_blank">clicking here</a></b>. In addition to writing about gardens and gardening, more and more of my time lately has been devoted to garden photography. For that reason, it seemed like the right time to combine that work with the Notes from Juniper Hill gardening blog so that everything is in one convenient and easily accessible location on the web. <br />
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I would like to thank all of you loyal followers of Notes from Juniper Hill over the past several years. Your thoughtful comments and encouragement have made writing the blog a true delight! And, I hope that you’ll check out the new blog which has a fresher, cleaner and more simplified look and is now fully integrated with my photography website. I'll look forward to catching up with you at our new home!</div>
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Interested in growing better vegetables next season? Then, here's the event for you! "Growing Vegetables," the second annual Garden Inspirations workshop to benefit the Latchis Theatre, in Brattleboro, Vermont is intended to provide gardeners with practical down-to-earth information about growing veggies, from choosing seeds this winter, growing those seeds into plants in the spring and summer, and then harvesting and cooking with them next fall. The day will include insights from experienced Vermont farmers as well as acclaimed TV personality, Roger Swain, known to millions as the host of the popular PBS show, "The Victory Garden." It all happens on Saturday, January 24th. What better way to put a little springtime into a cold January day than learning how to grow warm season vegetables! Click <span style="color: #bf9000;"><i>"read more</i></span>" for additional info below....<br>
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It has been one of those periods in early December when the thermometer can't make up its mind where it wants to settle. Consequently we have gone through more than a few days where it has both warmed up and cooled down in a matter of hours. And, when you add a little moisture to this atmospheric uncertainty, you often end up with sleet or freezing rain that can pretty much blanket everything. This makes for terrible driving on the roads and even worse walking on the pavements. On the other hand, these conditions can create some of the most unexpected and unusual effects you'll get to see in the garden until the hornworms devour all your tomatoes next summer. <br />
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I walked through the garden recently with my camera and captured a few photos. As you'll see, most of the plants that are still left standing this late in the season take on an entirely different look when exposed to ice and snow. I think they are beautiful even though many are either as dead as a door nail or, at the very least, as dormant as a hedgehog on Ambien. Some, that are encased in ice, sparkle like the best crystal and radiate an inner beauty that rivals the plant's best appearance during the gardening season. In that sense, winter has given them a second chance to shine.<br />
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As usual, I heard a lot of complaints about November this year. For starters, November is one of those transitional months, simultaneously marking the end of the often beautiful and colorful fall and the beginning of the often long and intractable winter. So, it's not unexpected that people get a little whiny during November when all they have to look forward to is three months of wool scarves and mittens. However, most of the complaints I hear about November have to do with how dreary it is. And, for this I think it gets a bad rap.<br>
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At the beginning of every winter you can find me dragging heavy wooden teepees out of the barn to protect my most vulnerable plants. It's a winter garden chore I look forward to about as much as I do the return of the black flies in the spring. <br>
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The garden’s power to transform experience was never made clearer to me than a late November week when Mary and I walked south down the full length of The High Line on New York City’s West Side. After seeing MOMA during the morning, and having a superb brunch at Norma’s in the Hotel Parker Meridien, we set out for the High Line with our niece Rebecca and her mate Michael who live in London; they were visiting NYC for the first time.<br>
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Winters can be very, very long for New England gardeners but here's an event that will be sure to put a little June back in your January. It's a Garden Inspirations Workshop to benefit Brattleboro's historic Latchis Theater led by four of Vermont's preeminent gardening experts; Gordon Hayward, Julie Moir Messervy, Dan Snow and Helen O'Donnell.<br>
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<span style="color: #741b47;"><i>“A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” </i> - Michael Pollan</span><br>
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Have you ever been to someone's garden and come home and said, “I wish my garden looked like that.” Well I suspect all gardeners, young and old, beginner and advanced, have felt this way. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out what it is that we are drawn to in a garden, yet we have a sense it ‘feels right.’ Trying to implement what we see and sense isn’t always easy. The beauty and the mystery is that all gardens are unique. Ideas may be borrowed but how they are used becomes ours. <br>
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In my years of gardening there are some threads that I’ve discovered that help a garden work and ‘feel right.’ How you make them unique to you is your job, but starting with a few basics is helpful. These are the ones that stand out for me:<br>
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Looking for something to do with the kids this weekend? Sandglass Theater presents two days of puppetry and performance in the enchanted setting of landscape architects Gordon and Mary Hayward’s gardens. Walk the gardens and view herbs, flowers, and other beautiful flora as you meet puppets, theater artists and musicians around each corner and behind every bush. This community event and Sandglass benefit is a local favorite. Food and refreshments add to the delight of a beautiful day. <a href="http://sandglasstheater.org/presenting/puppets-in-paradise/" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Click here</span></i></a> for more info.<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-6347874008184680392013-06-29T06:09:00.000-04:002013-06-29T20:54:29.455-04:00These Beautiful Garden Pots Will Quickly Urn Your Respect<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Anduze urns, or the vase d'anduze, have to be my favorite garden planters. They have been around since the 16th-century and originated in the small town of Anduze in the south of France. I love the form and shape of these wonderful garden ornaments and the color and patina on the unglazed pair in the photo above is just about perfect!<br>
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Have you always wanted a little shade garden but have nothing to work with except glaring sun? Well, maybe the answer is to build a little shade house like this one at Bourton House Gardens, in Bourton-On-The-Hill, England (<a href="http://www.bourtonhouse.com/">www.bourtonhouse.com</a>). I simply loved this little structure from the first moment I saw it. It's built almost entirely of "slatted" lumber, which seems to provide just the right combination of sun and shade inside. It has a little mulched path that runs right down the center so that plants are visible on two sides. And, in addition to providing shade for the array of plants inside, the structure itself is handsome and serves as great 'ornamentation' in the garden. Here are a few more views…<br>
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It's crabapple season here at Juniper Hill. Crabapples are usually grown for their ornamental value, although they are often used as 'polinizers' in apple orchards. Because of the plentiful blossoms on crabapples, they are particularly attractive to bees and many orchardists will intersperse a few crabapple trees among a row of orchard apples in order to encourage pollination.<br>
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The fruit of the crabapple is extremely sour to taste but this doesn't seem to bother the birds who find it to be especially palatable in the early spring when food is scarce and when many varieties of crabapples are still holding their fruit from the previous season.<br>
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In our gardens here, the pink and white blossoms of the crapapples provide the first real flower color of the season as they light up the landscape and get the bees stirring.<br>
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The painting on the left, by Georges Braque, is <i>Trees At Estaque</i> and the photo on the right, that I saw earlier, is of<i> Syringa vulgaris</i> (Lilac) leaves from Horticultural Art. I was struck by the similarities I saw in these two images--one a painting from 1908 and the other a photograph from 2011. Both, of course, are works of art but the common thread that holds them together is clearly the attempt to depict nature in a new and different way.<br>
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Friends of mine are fed up to their transcendental back teeth with me quoting Thoreau but it seems appropriate here so I'll do it one more time. Thoreau once said that..."<i>Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense." </i>With Thoreau's quote in mind, and the lilac leaves reminding me of the Braque painting, I wondered what some of the most famous artists felt about the relationship between art and nature and so I went digging for a few of their thoughts. I also went back to the Horticultural Art photostream to see if I could come up with a few more examples of "nature's art" that I thought might resonate with some of the artist's "fine art," like the lilac leaves did for me with the Braque painting. And so, a few of the pairings I put together, along with some artist's musings on art and nature, appear below. I hope you enjoy them. You can click on any of the images to see a slide-show of all of them in larger format.<br>
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Maggie Smith has had some great lines in Downton Abbey as the inimitable Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham and she didn't disappoint us this past week in episode 3 of the third season. The gardener in me loved a scene in this episode when the Dowager Countess sat down with her granddaughter, Lady Edith who, shortly after being jilted at the altar, was not at all sure what to do with the rest of her life:<br>
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<i><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Lady Edith: There's nothing to do at the house, except when we entertain. </span><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Dowager Countess: There must be something you can put your mind to.</span><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Lady Edith: Like, what? Gardening?</span><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><br style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Dowager Countess: Well, you can't be as desperate as that.</span></i></div>
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Maybe this explains why, as a gardener, I suffer from bouts of desperation. Nevertheless, even though the Dowager Countess couldn't begin to imagine her granddaughter's hands in the dirt, I'm sure that among those in service at Downton, she must have held the gardeners in fairly high regard.<br>
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When we bought our 200 year old farmhouse here in southern Vermont we knew we wanted to heat with wood. It was a New England tradition; it was cheaper than oil or propane; any house heated with wood seems to feel warmer than those heated by oil, electricity or propane; it felt like the right thing to do ecologically; and then there was simply the romance of the thing. An old place like this deserves wood heat.<br>
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The Thuya Garden, in Northeast Harbor, Maine, was created by landscape designer <a href="http://tclf.org/pioneer/charles-savage" target="_blank">Charles K. Savage</a> in 1958, shortly after he created nearby Asticou Azalea Garden (<a href="http://www.juniperhillfarmnh.com/2012/11/the-gardens-of-mount-desert-island.html" target="_blank">see this earlier post</a>). However, where Asticou Azalea Garden is styled after a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_garden" target="_blank">Japanese stroll garden</a>, Thuya has a completely different feel. Here, Savage gave a nod to the English style of gardening when he created an artful blend of semi-formal herbaceous borders framed by native eastern woodlands. Like Asticou, some of the impetus to create Thuya can be attributed to Savage's efforts to save a part of the collection of plants belonging to landscape architect, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrix_Farrand" target="_blank">Beatrix Farrand</a> when her Reef Point estate in Bar Harbor, Maine was dismantled in 1956. Many of the original trees and plants in Thuya today were purchased from Reef Point and when you walk through the garden you can feel the influence of Beatrix Farrand as well as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Jekyll" target="_blank">Gertrude Jekyll</a>, the English gardener she most admired. <br>
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All gardens are created equal under snow. A dusting doesn’t do it, but when we really get dumped on—hallelujah. Because there’s nothing between my garden and Juniper Hill that three feet of white fluffy stuff won’t obliterate. <br>
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Do you wish for a special little hideaway in the garden where you can get away from it all? A place where you can put down the trowel for a while, forget about the weeding, and simply settle in with a good book and a cup of tea. If so, here are a few garden houses that perhaps will give you some inspiration to construct your very own. And, if you already have your own special getaway spot in the garden, or have a favorite that you'd like to replicate someday, I would love to see photos!<br>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>H</i>appy <i>H</i>olidays to all of our Juniper Hill </span></div>
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<i style="color: #274e13;">and all the barnyard employees at Juniper Hill.</i></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3033396282369500709.post-47258204486777927062012-12-19T16:01:00.000-05:002012-12-20T11:36:11.900-05:00A Winter Tour of Juniper Hill<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>If you are fortunate enough to walk in a garden which looks and feels good in mid-winter, you will realize that it does so because of its use of space, the patterns created by its paths and walls, the shapes of its shrubs, the shadows of its evergreens and the silhouettes of its tree trunks and twisted branches.</i>--<span style="font-size: x-small;">Rosemary Verey, The Garden In Winter.</span></div>
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I love the garden in winter! You get to enjoy all the beauty without any of the work. The bright flower colors of summer are gone, replaced by a much more subtle and earthy palette of tans, beiges, and reddish-browns, which appeal to me. And if your garden has the good structure that Rosemary Verey talks about, evergreens can look stunning, so dark and deep green, especially against the backdrop of a gentle snowfall like the one that occurred here this week. That first real snowfall is special and I couldn't wait to grab my camera and snap some photos around the garden. To join me on a winter tour of the gardens here at Juniper Hill, </div>
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Every year at this time, the holidays seem to run together<br />and Christmas sneaks up on me.<br />Its an old trick of Saint Nick, I think.<br />And before I can say "just charge it on Visa," <br />It's time to hang the holiday wreaths...<br />and then it's here.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The town pound in Lyndeborough, NH dates from 1774</td></tr>
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The modern animal shelter that houses homeless or abandoned animals owes
its beginnings to the animal pound which dates to medieval times. <br>
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