Burning Bush Last week I was driving through a shady and pleasant part of Wellesley, MA, enjoying the really stunning show of fall colors. One bucolic road was flanked on one side by a steep wooded hill, at the bottom of which a small stream flowed next to the road. I noticed that the brightest [...]
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The season for Burning Bush
Posted in Miscellaneous, Opportunistic plants, Plant management, Plant selection, Shrubs, tagged Euonymus alatus, Oriental bittersweet, invasive species, nature, environment on November 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Crowding the bed
Posted in Plant selection, Plant spacing, tagged Plant spacing, shrub spacing, Harvard University landscape, Fothergilla on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Harvard University has recently been building on Memorial Drive, along the Charles River. The site that had held a garden center (most recently, Mahoney’s, and before that, the Grower’s Market, where I sold Christmas trees one year) is now becoming a park and a graduate student dormitory. The dorm is done; the park (originally slated [...]