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The London-Faringdon coach, 1835, James Pollard (1792 - 1867) Notes from Juniper Hill blog has moved to a new location and can now be found at WWW.JOSEPHVALENTINE.COM, or by CLICKING HERE . ...

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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, ...

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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 ...

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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 colorf...

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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 mu...

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A WALK ALONG NEW YORK CITY'S HIGH-LINE 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 o...

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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 Brat...

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MAKE YOUR GARDEN SING “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 gardene...

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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 Hayw...

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Photo by French Garden House 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 A...

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The layers of color in Gordon and Mary Hayward's Vermont garden would lend themselves well to the artist's brush. Don't forget to join us on Facebook at NOTES FROM JUNIPER HILL, where you'll...

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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...

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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 plentif...

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HOW A TOADSTOOL-SHAPED STONE TRANSFORMED ITSELF FROM UTILITARIAN FARM OBJECT TO COVETED GARDEN ORNAMENT.   Read more »

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During the depths of winter a gardener can find himself with too much time on his hands.  And if you don't believe me... well, you will after you read this post.  But let me back up a bit. The ...

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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.  T...

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Woodcutters by Thomas Hart Benton, 1948 Firewood 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 ...

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The Thuya Garden, in Northeast Harbor, Maine, was created by landscape designer Charles K. Savage in 1958, shortly after he created nearby Asticou Azalea Garden (see this earlier post ).  H...

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Think Snow 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 th...

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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 settl...

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Happy Holidays to all of our Juniper Hill  blog readers, Facebook and Twitter friends! from Joe, Paula... Farm Manager, Caleb Corgi... Assistant Managers and Vermin Consultants, ...

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  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 an...

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Every year at this time, the holidays seem to run together and Christmas sneaks up on me. Its an old trick of Saint Nick, I think. And before I can say "just charge it on Visa," It's time t...

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The town pound in Lyndeborough, NH dates from 1774 The modern animal shelter that houses homeless or abandoned animals owes its beginnings to the animal pound which dates to medieval times. ...

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