making lemonade

as i walk around my neighborhood after snowmagedon 2.0 i cant help but notice the vast amounts of fallen brush and branches caused by last week's heavy snow/ice combo...

many of the piles have been tagged as "too large" by our sanitation engineers, so they are laying all over the place.

why not recycle some of it into something fantastic?

canadian design group urban tree salvage showed off some of their inspired pieces at the 2011 toronto design show last week.

they need to get some trucks down here stat!

omg: gmo alfalfa approved

for the last few years, a consortium of organic growers have fought the use of bio-engineered seed by big business. the growers  are fighting the use of 'gmo's for a variety of reasons...mainly because bees pollinating genetically modified plants would also visit nearby organic crops, thus polluting them. well, according to slash food: they gave up! monsanto has just received the food and drug administration's backing to grow unrestricted amounts of alfalfa...to feed livestock, among other things...great.

Snowmagedon: Deja vu all over again

I took this a few hours ago... Now it's 8 inches deeper, dark and the power is out! ahhhh...winter!


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garden show

get out of the frigid air and go indoors to the 68th annual cleveland home & garden show today through january 30th. 

modern landscape design

i love the seamless carpet-style design of this landscape installation in beer sheba, israel...read more about the landscape architects' concept here.

a garden bench

a few weeks ago i went down to the national mall for a little museum hopping. i dont know if these benches are recent acquisitions by the castle or not, but i never noticed them before: they are quite beautiful and unexpected!

best plants for winter

as the bleakness of winter gets, well, bleaker, these are the plants i wish i had planted to give me a little mid winter color...they are on my list for this year!

red twig dogwood: i like the variety with the variegated leaves so it looks good all year round.

rosa rugosa: lovely large hips!

beauty berry: purple berries: need i say more?

harry lauder's walking stick:

i love this gnarly plant!  i have killed several starter ones, but look forward to giving another one a try soon...

 camellias!

my neighbor has a large-obviously very old-camellia shrub adjacent to her house that has huge and wonderful rose-like blooms all winter- just when you're longing for some color. i have been admiring it for many winters now, but every year its beauty continues to surprise me.

variegated holly bush...

i am not a fan of the sharp holly leaves in the summer time, with the bare feet and all. but, come winter its full silhoette is a welcome site! my favorite holly is this variegated variety: it is very festive around the holidays with the lovely red berries. many different types of birds live off of these berries in winter: robins, starlings, a bunch of different tree-clinging, wood-pecker-type birds, wax-wings (love them!) and cardinals to name a few.

hellebores...it took a few years to get my single one established, but now it blooms faithfully every late january and is even beginning to spread a bit, but i need more than one...

heathers and heaths are so pretty, especially on a wnter's day like today! this variety, Calluna vulgaris 'firefly' looks like a cluster of mini red hot pockers!

witch hazel blooms before forsythia, which i like because they signal the start of warmer days.

snow drops are

the first to show up in earliest spring: that's why they're great! 

i need blossoms!

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