07.03.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: What’s in bloom now — Day lilies and more day lilies If there were the equivalent of a “state flower” for Shelter Island, it would surely be the day lily, or to be horticulturally correct, hemerocallis, since day lilies, as...
06.26.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: Going forward with annuals — more favorites Back to annuals after our week with vines — and a look at some of the less-used choices. Among my favorites are lobelia and nierembergia, both blue. There’s something...
06.11.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: Moving past geraniums — what lies ahead? Having paid proper obeisance to the omni-present, ever-popular geranium, let us move ahead, skipping right over petunias and marigolds, and spend some time with some of the lesser known...
06.06.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: Who wins the annual popularity contest? For shade? It’s impatiens, which also made a fortune for its hybridizer, Claude Hope, who died a few years ago at the age of 93. But how about for...
05.21.2012 Around the Island Gardening Column: Living with deer undeserved punishment … Now that we’ve covered most of the mundane but necessary tasks of spring, we can begin to think of what’s in bloom now — and what we might wish...