October 2013

My bountiful cutting garden

By dennis / On Oct.10.2013 / In / Width

Every week that it doesn't get cold enough to frost is a gift. My cutting garden.....which is usually, primarily, a vegetable garden is brimming full. It is (mostly composed) of Nicotiana, Celosia and Zinnias. They are overshadowing the few vegetables that I got around to planting this year. The Nicotiana (the tall white flower, which is a cousin of smoking tobacco) are all volunteers. I haven't planted any new nicotiana plants or seeds in several years. If it likes where it is, you can count on returns for seasons to come.

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Lyndhurst Castle

By dennis / On Oct.03.2013 / In / Width

For years we have been aiming to visit Lyndhurst, a historic property owned  by the National Trust in Tarrytown, NY. Finally we took advantage of the incredible weather we have been having lately on Sunday to see this outstanding property. We were a little surprised as how modest, in size, the house was. I had this image of it being incredibly grand, on the scale of some of the Gold Coast of Long Island or Southampton houses of  yore. Of course by todays standards it is generous.....but not epic.It is epic in it's romanticism, being a Gothic revival afair by architecht A. J.

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