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The Garden Season's Last Hurrah
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
Pink Turtlehead
I cannot believe we are well into September! What happened? My container plants are lush and robust and some areas of the garden are in their glory. The dahlias are flower covered with dozens more buds waiting to come. The cherry tomatoes are profusely producing candy-like orbs every day. I know it's the end and all is slowing down but I'm never quite ready to say goodbye.
I think of this time in the garden as "The Awkward Stage." Many perennials and annuals are done for, especially with the drought our region has experienced this season. To prolong the show, my policy is to cut down the ugly stuff: the brown stems, the spent flowers, and any mildewed or black-spotted foliage. Cutting back daisies, bee balm, coneflowers and similar plants to basal foliage (the healthy green leaves at the base of the crown) is good housekeeping. It also allows the plants to put their energy into growing healthier and deeper roots from now until frost. Getting these eyesores out of your sightline does wonders for the parts of the garden that are still working and allows them to shine.
It's a great time to see where you could introduce some plants that will provide late season color that carry the garden through the "The Awkward Stage." Take note of plants in your neighbors' gardens that are blooming now and appeal to you. Write them down so you can add them to your shopping list in the spring.
Now is also the perfect time to assess your garden with a critical eye. There's plenty to enjoy until that first frost does everything in, but only if you planted the right things earlier in the season. In my garden, Japanese anemone, aster varieties, chelone or turtlehead, hydrangea varieties, Herbstonne rudbekia, sedum varieties, ornamental grasses, helenium, Russian sage, caryopteris, veronicastrum and butterfly bush are all still in bloom and prolonging my enjoyment of the garden.
In containers, annuals will keep pumping out blooms until the weather gets much colder if you keep deadheading and fertilizing weekly with a foliar feed. If they have gotten leggy, prune them back to green foliage, which will cause them to push new growth and buds. I find I can "buy" quite a few weeks of continued flowering unless we get an early frost. Don't fertilize perennials, shrubs, and trees now. They need to settle down and have an opportunity to harden off existing foliage for winter as they prepare to enter their dormant period.
"September Charm" Japanese anemone
If you're not ready to pack it in and hang up your garden gloves there's lots to do. Fall planting isn't just for trees and shrubs. It's an excellent time to buy perennials (most nurseries have them on sale) as long as you know you can get them in the ground them by mid-October, at the latest. Make sure they are well watered until the ground freezes, which doesn't usually happen for several more months. Of course it's also spring blooming bulb planting season. You cannot have tulips and daffodils and all the other delightful flowers that come from bulbs if they are not installed now.
None of us wants to hear this next tip — but another very important chore in September and October is to continue weeding. Letting weeds and grass flourish in the garden beds means big trouble. They, or their offspring, will be waiting for you in the spring and will be stronger and more prolific given the opportunity to develop extensive roots if they are a perennial variety, or to drop seed, if they are annuals.
Before we know it, this garden season will be history and, optimistically, we'll all have another chance to achieve our horticultural dreams next year.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 09/19/16 at 09:50 AM • Permalink
A Garden Of Contained Exuberance
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
Every year at The Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge Mass., the curators invite some of the region's most talented garden and landscape designers to create individual container gardens that are sited throughout the garden. The exhibit is called "Contained Exuberance." Tucked away in different spots around this 15-acre horticultural gem, visitors come upon these surprise arrangements as they stroll the grounds viewing the permanent beds and display gardens, which are open to the public from May to mid-October.
I was flattered to be asked to design a group of pots this year for the second time. A few years ago, I created an arrangement of succulents of all varieties planted in my own collection of repurposed galvanized tubs, barrels and buckets. I was assigned a spot in full sun on a stone terrace, so I wanted to choose something heat tolerant and tough, but unusual. There are countless varieties of succulents, from the huge-leaved Kalanchoe gastonis-bonnieri (Donkey ears) to the tiniest baby fingernail-sized chartreuse Sedum 'Ogon.' I absolutely adore succulents! Many look like they were either designed by Dr. Seuss or landed on earth from another planet.
This year I chose a spot in the shade and decided to use three graduated vertical containers created by concrete designer Justin Madsen of Marveled Designs, which matched the beautiful bench that he would be displaying at BBG this summer in their "Benched" exhibit. For plant selection, first I chose a color palette, in this case, purples and greens. I specifically focused on foliage plants rather than flowers to minimize maintenance, with no need for deadheading. Removal of yellowing leaves is about all that's called for and just a few times during the growing season; the more aggressive growers can be trimmed and shaped to keep in balance with the various plants in relation to each other.
Because the light green containers are simple in shape with a contemporary style, I selected a few feature plants that offer dramatic form and interesting texture, exhibiting one or more of colors in the palette. I underplanted them with smaller-leaved choices to soften the hard lines of the pots and to carry the color story through all the vessels. Some act as "ground covers," some as fillers and some as trailers, to drip down the sides of the pots in soft contrast to the hard surface behind them.
In the tallest pot, I used Alternanthera dentate 'purple knight,' Alocasia 'Regal Shield' (elephant ear) and Ipomoea batatas 'illusion emerald lace' (sweet potato vine). In the medium pot went Alternanthera dentate 'rubiginosa,' Dypsis lutescens (areca palm) and Ipomoea batatas 'sweet Georgia deep purple' (sweet potato vine).
In the smallest pot, I planted a Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum' (purple fountain grass) and underplanted that with Asplenium bulbiferum (mother fern). I hoped the purple fountain grass would maintain both green and purple leaves for my color scheme if it was sited in mostly shade rather than turning solid reddish-purple as it does in full sun. I'm happy to report that it has performed as planned, and I'm very pleased with the way it turned out.
There are nine container arrangements created by designers on view at BBG into mid-September along with a fascinating group of benches of all kinds, not to mention that the display gardens are all in their glory right now! It's worth the trip to take in all this horticultural beauty before the season ends.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 08/17/16 at 09:47 AM • Permalink
When The Rain Doesn't Come…Ever
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
I tend to write about the things that are on my mind. These days I'm obsessing about our lack of rain, lying awake nights worrying about the plants I installed in gardens this year. Everywhere I go, people are talking about it. A few nights ago, it rained for 4.5 minutes, exactly. There had been a promise of rain in the air all day. It just felt like it was going to let loose and go on for a while. But alas. That promise was repeated today and it was totally disappointing once again. With the current forecast, there's no relief in sight.
Like many in these parts, my well does not recover very quickly, so I cannot water with abandon. I have to be very selective about what I water and how I do it. My priorities for watering are, first, plants that have been put in the ground this year and are not established yet. Next are plants that were installed last year and still need some extra help. And then, containers in full sun that dry out in this weather seemingly minutes after they are drenched. I'm letting the grass go dormant. It'll green up again when (and if) we do get rain. The only silver lining is that mowing isn't necessary.
There are many techniques for saving water and using it judiciously. I cringe when I see people scattering water willy-nilly over the leaves of plants just until the surface of the soil or mulch looks wet. Nothing is getting to the roots where the plant can take it up into its stems and leaves. Watering must be done at the base of plants and not with a strong stream, which runs off, but with a dribble or a trickle so it has a chance to percolate the layers of soil and seep deep into the base of the root zone. Deep-watering several times a week, rather than brief, daily watering, provides enough moisture for growing plant roots in hot weather.
Soaker hoses winding through the flowerbeds are an excellent method of allowing moisture to reach the base of the plants without losing most of it to evaporation. Hooking up a battery-operated timer to the soaker hose allows you to avoid watering at peak use times and taxing your system or your well. Setting timers for longer periods, less frequently, is better than watering every day.
When it's hot and dry for long periods, the surface of the soil, even if it's mulched, becomes baked and hard. When this happens, water can be wicked away from where you want it to go. Gently loosening the area around the base of the plant allows water to reach the desired destination.
The same condition happens with containers. Commercial potting mixes can become water repellent if they get too dry. The potting soil dries up, shrinks and become hard so that when watered, it runs down the inside of the pots and out the bottom without permeating the root ball. You'll see the water escaping through the drainage holes and think it has been sufficiently hydrated but, in reality, it hasn't been watered at all. Using your fingers or a small tool to carefully disturb the crusty surface around the base of the plants will improve the saturation conditions.
One important tip to keep in mind: during the heat of the day, especially if plants are sited in direct sun or are exposed to prolonged windy conditions, leaves will look wilted even though you may have watered that morning and the soil appears to be wet. This is a self–defense mechanism employed by the plant to protect the roots. It closes the pores in the leaves to prevent too much transpiration of moisture. If the leaves recover and perk back up late in the day, it doesn't need more water. If they stay limp, then don't wait, spot water immediately.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 07/26/16 at 09:56 AM • Permalink
Garden Dialogues Explore Synergy Between Designer And Client
Salisbury estate. Photo: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
By Lisa Green
Thanks to the myriad of house and garden tours and "open days" throughout our region, garden aficionados have fairly frequent access to some magnificent private gardens. There, the artful landscapes self describe the what and where of garden design, but missing is the why and how these particular Edens came to be.
On July 31, two distinguished residential estates in Salisbury, Conn. and Millerton, New York will set the scene for Garden Dialogues, a special tour series that benefits The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Larry Weaner, one of the foremost landscape designers in the country — and the designer for these two properties — will engage in a conversation with his clients on the collaborative process between client and designer.
The day offers a unique form of a garden tour in which both the client and the designer participate, revealing how the project was realized. How do designers and clients work together? How do clients get their vision across? What makes for an enduring collaboration?
Millerton estate. Photo: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
The day begins at a contemporary property in Millerton, where a nuanced treatment in which formal planting arrangements and dramatic stonework dissolve gradually into designed meadows and carefully managed woodlands. In the afternoon, the tour moves to a large estate in Salisbury, where designed natural landscapes run up to and envelop a Georgian mansion with stately formal gardens. The owner, who has won national awards and recognition for management of her estate, will be joined by her on-staff horticulturalist in this Dialogue.
"We get rave reviews from people on the Dialogue series," says Nord Wennerstrom, director of communications for the Cultural Landscape Foundation. "They connect people to places, which is our mission, but they also give people a depth of understanding they wouldn't get otherwise."
Each tour lasts about an hour and a half, and participants are invited to bring a lunch to enjoy on the grounds at the first tour. Weaner is providing a jitney from a meeting location in Salisbury to each venue. Tour size is limited and reservations are necessary. The event is tax deductible and proceeds benefit the educational programs of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.
Garden Dialogues: New York-Connecticut
Sunday, July 31, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 07/15/16 at 01:04 PM • Permalink
Dispatch From The Garden: Color…And Not
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine and writes a bi-weekly garden column for the Chatham Courier. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
The White Garden at Sissinghurst Castle featuring cleome, cosmos, and veronica.
Many people are obsessed with bright blooming color in the garden all season long and I don't blame them. When I began gardening seriously, I was focused on colorful flowers, too. My taste hasn't changed; my heart still catches in my throat when I spy blooms in brilliant hues: peonies, dahlias, coneflowers, clematis (and on and on). I've already professed my love for chartreuse, but I've also developed an appreciation for subtle tonal combinations. One of the most difficult skills to develop as a garden designer is achieving continuous three-season bloom. I've certainly gotten better at it after all these years, but I'm always striving to improve. Every time I consider purchasing a plant to install in a garden, I automatically think of this aspect of design.
One reason it's so hard is many perennials bloom for only a couple of weeks, so planning to have multiple plants ready to burst into flower, just as Plant A, B and C are finishing up, is quite a challenge. This scheme must be repeated from spring through fall. Long-blooming annuals can assist in this goal. It can be expensive to invest in them every season rather than rely on perennials to achieve the all-season garden, but I feel they earn their keep if maintained properly (fertilized, deadheaded and well watered), filling the gaps and endlessly pumping out color whether planted in the ground or in strategically placed containers. Self-sowing annuals (cosmos, larkspur, verbena bonariensis, etc.) are a one-time investment but have to be controlled.
'Silver Falls' dichondra planted in an unused fountain to resemble water spilling over the tiers at the Hooper garden in Canaan, N.Y.
On the other side of the color story is white. In the past few years I've been creating some all-white scenarios within the context of other gardens. All white is a misnomer because silver, gray, chartreuse, light yellow and other pale foliaged and flowering plants are used, too. Dark green leaves and flowers with bright hues recede as the sun fades. Whites, pastels, chartreuse and silver-gray, which can look faded in the sun's brightest light, almost float as they emerge from their darker surroundings, reflecting any available light from the moon or other sources. The plant choices depend on whether your light conditions are full sun, shade or a combination, but there are dozens of plants that not only offer sparkly white or pale blooms but also offer fragrance, especially at night. Many light-colored flowers attract pollinators who are busy working the graveyard shift, and exude a perfumed fragrance which helps them be found.
Any of the panicle-flowered hydrangeas or arborescens types are excellent choices for white gardens. 'David' phlox, white or blush pink petunias, Casa Blanca lilies, moonflower, flowering tobacco, and trumpet flower are just a handful of the flowers that will give off a lovely fragrance. Lamb's ear, 'Silver Falls' dichondra, 'Diamond Frost' euphorbia, white thunbergia, 'Virgin' or 'White Swan' coneflowers, 'Becky' daisies, 'Bridal Veil' astilbe, white liatris and salvia are excellent choices to carry through the white theme.
I site these little "moon gardens" where they can be enjoyed after the sun goes down as well as during the light of day. If your days are so hectic that you barely get home by sunset, you could use a spot in the garden that invites you to sit back and relax in a sparkly haven of tranquility. And with our crazy weather patterns, evening is often the only time you can stand to be outside anyway.
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Posted by Lisa Green on 07/12/16 at 02:18 PM • Permalink
A Beautiful Shade Of Green
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine and writes a bi-weekly garden column for the Chatham Courier. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
Sun king brightens a semi-shade slope with angelina sedum at the base.
My favorite color is green and I absolutely love chartreuse! It just makes me happy, and whatever you call it — pistachio, acid, lime, neon, yellow-green, golden — my closet is filled with variations of this color. It's a very versatile color to use in the garden, and my mission is to integrate it into garden designs and container plantings whenever I can. A little chartreuse goes a long way though and has to be used judiciously.
Groundcovers, annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees all have chartreuse versions. There's something available at any point on the scale you wish, and it mixes well with almost any other color. Using it with complementary colors like scarlet, berry, pinks and reds is an easy choice. I also love the greener shades of chartreuse in combination with violet, lilac, deep purple and blues. For "hot" combos of color, it works well with yellow, coral, orange and other citrus-y tones.
Now, as I examine all the gardens I tend, I'm seeing the places where I've used chartreuse effectively and where I could add some into the planting scenarios. "Lady's mantle" (alchemilla mollis) is such a workhorse. It tolerates sun or shade, and the velvety medium-green roundish leaves complement other perennials. At this time in the season, a host of tiny flowers create a frothy cloud of bright green above the foliage. It definitely makes itself apparent, but in a subtle way. The stems make a lovely filler for cut bouquets. When the blooms start to fade, cut the flower stems back to basal foliage and refocus attention on the beautiful foliage.
The chartreuse flowers of lady's mantle.
Less subtle, and a plant that earns the name "sun king," aralia cordata is akin to a spotlight in the garden. It features a large, rounded clump of yellow-green compound leaves, topped in summer by 2-foot tall spikes of tiny white flowers. Deep purplish-black inedible berries ripen in fall and birds love them. The foliage retains a good chartreuse color throughout summer. It prefers a mix of sun and shade and if in too much shade, will not be as bright.
In containers, I like to use golden creeping jenny (lysimachia nummularia aurea) as an underplanting to upright plants like elephant ears or annual salvias. Sweet potato vine (ipomoea batatas) "margarita," with a heart-shaped leaf, and "illusion emerald lace," with a tri-lobed leaf, are two varieties that I go to again and again. They are quite vigorous and can be used to trail down pots or walls, or be planted in the ground where gaps need to be filled or where you want a shot of vibrant color.
In mixed borders, the relatively small gold mound spirea can be kept compact with a spring pruning every year and it creates good contrast against its darker green companions. Fine-leaved "ogon" is another spirea that mixes well. In my own garden, I let golden feverfew self-sow every season and, in the spring, transplant the small mounds of delicate chartreuse foliage to areas where I need to fill a gap or want to highlight other plants. I also use this method with "jewels of opar" (talinum limone).
There are dozens of additional plants in this exciting color story: varieties of hosta, heuchera, sedum, coleus, caryopteris, sambucus and ornamental grass. Experiment with something chartreuse this season in your garden. I think you'll agree with me!
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Posted by Amy Krzanik on 06/28/16 at 12:47 PM • Permalink
Amble And Admire The View: Kinderhook Garden Stroll
By Lisa Green
Kinderhook, New York loves its Dutch ancestry. To quote ourselves, "Kinderhook has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to historical architecture." We've previously written about the town's more famous buildings. But this being garden tour season, Kinderhook wants to introduce visitors to a selected handful of rarely seen private gardens at some of the oldest Dutch houses in town.
On Saturday, June 25 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Village of Kinderhook Office of Economic Development is sponsoring a Garden Stroll at five spectacular properties. Not solely a garden tour, it's also the opportunity to see up close some of Kinderhook's collection of preserved 18th and 19th-century homes.
One of them belongs to Sigrid Gray, former horticulture director of The Battery Conservancy in New York City for 15 years, as well as a gardener at the Cooper Hewitt and Smithsonian Design Museum. She relocated to Kinderhook in 2012 and chose the house in the historic district precisely because she could see its garden potential, which she's since brought to fruition. Gray will be offering "The Naturalistic Garden" Walk and Talk at her property. It's a stunning naturalistic garden, with an intermingling of ornamental and edible plants, foliage and bloom.
Other properties on the tour include a cottage-style garden at a 1756 stone Dutch house with Federal brick and clapboard additions; a ramble alongside and behind a circa 1840 Federal home; and a formal boxwood-and-yew courtyard garden inside the walls of a Dutch home built in 1766.
And, of course, it wouldn't be a Saturday in Kinderhook without its farmers market, and the always vibrant and schmooze-filled gathering will offer tastings of wine, spirits and cider, plus performances of Carapace Farm Puppetry. As they say, something for everyone.
Proceeds will benefit beautification projects throughout the Village of Kinderhook.
Garden Stroll
Village of Kinderhook, NY
Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Tickets, $20 , available from 9 a.m. in Kinderhook Village Square
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Posted by Lisa Green on 06/18/16 at 11:47 AM • Permalink
'Books & Blooms' Garden Tour Crosses The Cornwalls
By Lisa Green
We know, from posting countless listings over the years, that books and gardens loom large in the lives of Rural Intelligence readers. And when those two subjects are combined in one event, as they are in The Cornwall (Conn.) Library's annual summer benefit and garden tour, we know there will be interest.
Books & Blooms begins on Friday, June 17 with a talk by Mark Prezorski, landscape curator of The Olana Partnership. He will give a presentation on Frederic Edwin Church's Olana estate and its 250-acre landscape in Hudson, followed by a cocktail reception and sale of garden books.
Tours of five Cornwall-area gardens begin on Saturday, June 18 at 10 a.m. and encourage an exploration of the five villages (Cornwall Village, Cornwall Bridge, Cornwall Hollow, West Cornwall and East Cornwall, for those who wondered about all those Cornwalls). Five diverse gardens will be open, including Michael Trapp's garden in West Cornwall. The antiques dealer and designer's garden has been included on other garden days, including a Trade Secrets tour.
"He changes his garden all the time, but this year you'll think you're in Tuscany," says Sandy Fiebelkorn, who's volunteering with the event. "The garden in Cornwall Village that was on the tour last year was not entirely complete, but now it is and it's on the tour again. It's blooming with peonies and roses and surrounded by a hillside with ancient trees and old stone walls."
And, by the way, the tour goes on rain or shine. "Last year it was really raining," Feibelkorn says,"but it still happened." And it's good for the gardens, right?
Books & Blooms
Presentation and Reception: Friday, June 18 at 5:30 p.m.; $30 (reservations recommended)
The Cornwall Library, 30 Pine Street, Cornwall Village, CT
Garden Tour: Saturday, June 18 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Reception and garden tour, $50
Maps and tickets for the garden tour will be available at the library on the day of the event.
(860) 672-6874
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Posted by Lisa Green on 06/11/16 at 10:35 AM • Permalink
A Scattershot Of Spring Thoughts
The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor at Real Simple Magazine and writes a bi-weekly garden column for the Chatham Courier. Madaline and her husband, Wayne Greene, live in Spencertown, NY where both are very active volunteers at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
Dark Reiter geraniums with and without flowers.
I feel like a bumblebee jumping from one dandelion flower to another right now! My head virtually spins with concerns, lists of plants to buy and making sure I remember to get to all the tasks that need doing in the spring garden.
The weather has been downright confounding! The rollercoaster of fluctuating temperatures, threatening frosts and drying winds has drastically delayed consistent seasonal warming. Those subfreezing temperatures in early April did massive temporary and permanent damage to perennials, fruit trees and evergreens.
The question I'm getting a lot lately is what to do about the severely browned evergreens like arborvitae, cypress and cedar. Extended periods of warm weather followed by a rapid temperature drop is the perfect formula for evergreen freeze damage. These types of trees had already started to acclimate to warmer temperatures and the sudden, severe drop packed a huge wallop. According to my go-to guy for anything "tree," Doug Mayer of Newton Hook Tree Care, the only thing to do is wait. In June, look for signs of greening buds and don't prune out the brown branches yet or you may be cutting off the emerging healthy growth. The browned needles (an evergreen's leaves) will eventually dry and fall off. He says don't fertilize, and make sure the affected specimens are well watered. If you don't start to see some signs of green growth by the end of spring, you'll have to consider replacement.
On a lighter note, I'm determined to focus on new plant combinations for container plantings and mixed borders, and not to resort to the same ol', same ol'. Many perennials either heaved out of the ground and were lost because of the temperature extremes or suffered so much damage they deserve an honorable burial in the compost pile. This presents an opportunity to introduce something different to an area that has been static for years. Rather than just replacing them with the same plant, I'm trying to use "fresh eyes" to see how I can enliven a design with a new species or foliage color. I'm very fond of a newish selection of meadow cranesbill, "Dark Reiter" geranium. It forms a compact mound of finely cut, plum purple foliage. Dark foliage plants create excellent contrast and make all the plants around them look more interesting.
For pots and window boxes, my spring resolution is to think out of the box and use more perennials mixed with annuals and tropicals, my typical choices. Flowering plants are an essential component of mixed containers but using heucheras (coral bells), for instance, provides a mass of colored foliage that can't be beat. They're available in an ever-expanding palette of colors that are not found in annuals. And, at the end of the season, I'll pop them into an open spot in the garden.
Hopefully the weather will truly warm up soon and we'll all be able to get those seedlings in the ground before they get too leggy. Oh, and another thing… what about the bumper crop of dandelions this year? The list goes on…
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Posted by Amy Krzanik on 05/17/16 at 11:12 AM • Permalink
Get Ready For Trade Secrets, Our Very Own Garden Of Eden
Bromeliads dazzle at the booth of grower David Burdick's Daffodils and More. Photo: Stephanie Stanton Photography.
By Madaline Sparks
If you have never been to Trade Secrets, the annual two-day garden event in the Litchfield Hills, really try to make a point to go this year. It is a Mecca for plant lovers and those who covet garden-themed antiques for inside and out. If you have been before, you know the beautiful Lion Rock Farm in Sharon, Conn., with its manicured gardens and panoramic views, is the site of the first day's spectacular Rare Plant and Garden Antiques Sale, this year on Saturday, May 14.
On Sunday, May 15, take advantage of the opportunity to enjoy a self-guided tour of four spectacular and inspiring gardens in the area: the rarely visited home garden of Michael Trapp; Carolyne Roehm's "Weatherstone;" the extensive plantings, farmland and barns at "Old Farm Nursery;" and Bunny Williams' and husband John Rosselli's exquisite garden.
I can't believe it has been 15 years since I was fortunate to attend the very first Trade Secrets event at world-renowned interior designer, author and garden expert Bunny Williams' home in Falls Village, Conn. My friend, Naomi Blumenthal, Bunny's then-head gardener, was a volunteer for Women's Support Services (WSS), a non-profit organization that offers free and confidential services to victims of domestic violence in northwest Connecticut, nearby Massachusetts and New York. Naomi and Bunny hatched an idea to sell overflow harvest from their greenhouse to raise money for WSS. They added a few antique dealers and local purveyors of plants and produce and Trade Secrets was born. It was a blast and it's only gotten bigger and better from those early beginnings.
Mossy-surfaced terra cotta pots of all sizes are displayed at a Trade Secrets booth. Photo: Stephanie Stanton Photography.
Although it has evolved dramatically in scope and scale since 2000, one thing that hasn't changed is the mission to support a great cause: a community free of domestic violence and abuse. Another is the sheer entertainment factor for anyone who loves all things gardening as much I do. Year after year, though I may not be shopping for a fountain for my estate or few-of-a–kind exotic plants for my sunroom, the treat of experiencing these items, all in one place, from dealers and growers from the entire Northeast is not to be matched. And whether you bring a truck to load up your finds or are shopping for a few unusual annuals for your pots on the porch, your garden senses will be tickled beyond your imagination. You'll leave with feelings of inspiration, aspiration and awe. And benefiting a good cause is the cherry on top. (And, by the way, the entire event is brilliantly and efficiently organized by an army of volunteers.)
At the Saturday event, Trade Secrets is hosting a special signing to celebrate three new gardening books: Outstanding American Gardens; A Celebration – 25 Years of the Garden Conservancy edited by Page Dickey; At Home in the Garden by Carolyne Roehm; and The Art of Gardening: Design Inspiration and Innovative Planting Techniques from Chanticleer.
For first crack at anything truly rare or unique, take the early buying opportunity from 8-10 a.m. (including breakfast) for $125. Regular admission starts at 10 for $40, and latecomers get a discount from 1 p.m. on for $20.
Purchase admission at the ticket booth at the farm. Tickets for the garden tours ($70) may be purchased at the ticket booth at Lion Rock and at the gardens on Sunday.
Trade Secrets Rare Plant & Garden Antiques Sale
Saturday, May 14
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Posts Tagged 'Abraham Lincoln'
Men Go to Battle
August 19, 2016 | by Benjamin Nugent
A small-budget film dramatizes the passive motives of Civil War enlistees.
The following are reasons that Henry Mellon, the protagonist of the film Men Go to Battle, volunteers to leave his home and fight for the Union in the Civil War: his brother, Francis, has thrown an ax at him in a spirit of fun; one of his mules has run into the woods; the local rich girl has spurned his advances; his arable land is choked with weeds; Francis is taller and more confident than he is; a rainstorm has drowned six of his chickens.
The following are not evident reasons for his enlistment: patriotism, abolitionism. Henry can neither read nor write, and he shows no interest in the world beyond his town, Small's Corner, Kentucky. The rich girl he likes is waited on by enslaved maids.
He slips off to the army on a winter night. Weeks later, he composes a letter home, dictating to a literate comrade: "I have all the beef and salted pork I want." Read More »
The Last Days of Foamhenge
July 26, 2016 | by Eileen Townsend
If you've ever taken I-81 north through Virginia, you've passed the town of Natural Bridge, in Rockbridge County—home to a ninety-foot limestone arch that extends over a gorge, a geological anomaly probably formed by an ancient underground river. Natural Bridge is an anachronism from the Route 66 era of highway travel, a place where you can pay twenty dollars to look at a rock, eat a rock-themed lunch, and then buy a shot glass illustrated with a picture of that same rock. As any respectable tourist trap must, the town hosts a constellation of other attractions: a petting zoo, a dinosaur/Civil War theme park, and the Natural Bridge Wax Museum (now closed, and former home to a ghoulish Obama tribute). Best of all is the featherlight, faux prehistoric monument known as Foamhenge.
As its name suggests, Foamhenge is a one-to-one scale replica of Stonehenge, made of foam. It is identical to the original, save the flecked gray paint, the accompanying statue of a deadhead-ish Merlin, and the fact that it was erected several millennia later. For the past twelve years, the henge has been the most public of Natural Bridge's draws, garnering a steady stream of visitors and enough press to be mentioned in the same breath as the area's actual ancient rocks. Its creator, an artist named Mark Cline, calls it his "foam-nomenon": the unlikely culmination of his career as a sculptor of roadside attractions. Read More »
Mourning Lincoln, and Other News
February 15, 2016 | by Sadie Stein
- Happy Presidents' Day! Martha Hodes's Mourning Lincoln has won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. The prize committee described the NYU Professor's book as "a stunning and enlightening work that underscores the rage that Lincoln's assassination fueled, the outpouring of grief that resulted, and how the anger and confusion that boiled across the country that summer influenced the failures of Reconstruction."
- Related: there are comic books devoted to the lives of Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Jeb Bush, and, obviously, Donald Trump.
- Irin Carmon, author of the recent Notorious RBG, discusses Ruth Bader Ginsburg's famous cross-aisle friendship with her judicial adversary, the late Antonin Scalia. "Ironically, Scalia's death has laid bare just how endangered such comity now is in Washington." So don't expect to see an ironic political takeoff of Unlikely Friendships at your local Urban Outfitters any time soon, which I'd been privately cherishing as a million-dollar idea.
- It'll surprise no one that reading is good for the brain: a recent Emory University study found that "reading can heighten connectivity in the left cortex of the brain after the fact. The activity is potential evidence that while we imagine the events in a book, the brain activity allows us to feel immersion." The buried heartbreaker? Apparently Pew finds that only 72 percent of Americans read a book in the last year. Which is, yes, a passing grade, but also a C-.
- Speaking of! What do "millionaire entrepreneurs" read? According to this article, exactly what you'd expect: The Art of War, The Tipping Point, and, obviously, The Elements of Style. Quoth Leon Rbibo, president of The Pearl Source, "If you can't write—if you can't clearly and concisely express yourself, your goals, your objectives, and your strategy you're not going to make it very far as an entrepreneur. Rewrite your elevator pitch after reading this book. I guarantee you'll impress yourself." Well, that too.
Ghosts Stay Near Home
November 3, 2015 | by Thomas W. Laqueur
In the third of three excerpts from The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains, Thomas Laqueur looks at the life and afterlife of the churchyard in literature.
In 1806, England's greatest landscape painter, John Constable, began a series of drawings and oil sketches of the church and churchyard of East Bergholt in the Stour Valley of Sussex, the village in which he had been born. In one of these, a man and two women gather around a tomb and look intently at an inscription that we cannot quite read. Those who saw the final painting would have known the allusion. An engraving published as the frontispiece to a collection of epitaphs the same year makes it explicit: the girl with her back to us blocks most of the text, but we can make out "Here rest / A Youth." Anyone in the early nineteenth century would have been able to fill in the missing words:
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth,
A Youth, to fortune and to fame unknown
from Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" (1751). They would not have needed the words; any picture of a churchyard evoked Gray. The "Elegy" was an immediate success when it was published and remained resonant for at least two centuries. "Poem of Poems," Edmund Gosse, the late nineteenth-century man of letters called it in his English Men of Letters book about Gray. Line for line, it has given more words to the English language, according to the attributions in the Oxford English Dictionary, than any other source; it was probably recited by more schoolchildren in the nineteenth century than any other; it was continually translated—thirty-three times into Italian alone by 1850. It was endlessly reprinted and anthologized in English. Read More »
Four Poems by Richard Milhous Nixon
February 16, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, and Jimmy Carter all published collections of poetry—and I don't mean to diminish their stately, often tender contributions to arts and letters by what follows. But the simple fact of the matter is, their poetical efforts pale in comparison to Richard Nixon, who was, and remains, the most essential poet-president the United States of America has ever produced.
The Poetry of Richard Milhous Nixon, a slim volume compiled by Jack S. Margolis and published in 1974, stands as a seminal work in verse. Comprising direct excerpts from the Watergate tapes—arguably the most fecund stage of Nixon's career—it fuses the rugged rhetoric of statesmanship to the lithe contours of song, all rendered in assured, supple, poignant free verse. Below, to celebrate Presidents' Day, are four selections from this historic chapbook, which has, lamentably, slipped out of print. Read More »
Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln
February 12, 2013 | by Sadie Stein


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Running blind: How Chen escapeD
BEIJING Chen Guangcheng's blindness was a help and a hindrance as he made his way past the security cordon ringing his farmhouse.
He knew the terrain – he had explored his village in rural China as a blind child and moved as easily in darkness as in daylight. He was alert for the sounds of people, cars and the river he would have to cross.
But he stumbled scores of times, arriving bloody at a meeting point with a fellow dissident – the first of an underground railroad of supporters who escorted him to safety.
A self-taught lawyer who angered authorities by exposing forced abortions, Chen is now presumed to be under U.S. protection, most likely in the American Embassy in Beijing. Details of his improbable escape – making his way last week through fields and forest, then being chased by security agents in Beijing – are emerging from the activists who helped him.
Chen and his family had been harassed and kept under house arrest since summer 2005, except for a four-year period when Chen was jailed on charges of disrupting traffic and restrictions were eased on his wife and daughter. The couple's son lives with his aunt.
After Chen's release in September 2010, the family was again placed under house arrest, their movements severely restricted, with even 6-year-old daughter Kesi subjected to searches when she came home from school. Chen and his wife, Yuan Weijing, were beaten several times.
The 41-year-old activist hatched his escape plan months ago with a simple idea – he would just lie still, said Bob Fu, founder of the Texas-based rights group ChinaAid and one of the few people to speak to Chen since he fled his village.
For weeks on end, Chen stayed in bed, saying he was too feeble to rise.
In fact, Chen wasn't well; his stomach was bothering him as it had for years. But he exaggerated his condition to lull the guards into a sense of complacency.
The ruse worked. The guards didn't look in on him constantly, assuming he was bedridden, and when he escaped under cover of darkness, it took three days for them to notice.
"He did a darn good job. … He prepared for months, at least two months," Fu said. "He didn't really move much, just laying in bed and making the impression that he couldn't move."
The night was cool with a sliver of crescent moon on April 22 when Chen slipped out of his farmhouse in eastern Shandong province. Blinded by fever as a child, Chen grew up exploring the nearby cornfields and dirt paths sightless, so he had his bearings.
It wasn't the first time he had run away from Dongshigu village and his bitter, nearly decade-long feud with local officials.
In 2005, Chen, his wife and a friend made a dash out of the village, running through a cornfield to evade guards. He and his friend got all the way to Beijing, where they met with diplomats and journalists, but his wife was captured. Days later, Chen was seized by security guards on the street and returned to house arrest.
On that brief escape he had been helped by his sighted friend; this time Chen was alone.
He followed a path to a field and from there took a road he knew would lead to a narrow river. After crossing it, he entered a wooded area that gave way to less-familiar ground that continually tripped him up. He fell at least 200 times, he would tell his supporters.
He walked for hours, trying to put as much distance between himself and his heavily guarded home as possible before daring to slip a battery into his mobile phone and call He Peirong, a Nanjing-based English teacher-turned-activist who had promised to help. She was waiting with a car.
When she finally found him, Chen was wet, covered in mud and blood, and had numerous cuts and bruises.
"He was in very unbelievable shape when he was picked up," said Fu, citing a conversation with He. Chen "was trembling, was physically weak. … But he was determined to escape from that miserable condition."
Fu said Chen took a few days to recuperate before making a video appeal.
Uploaded to YouTube and Boxun.com five days after the escape, it showed Chen in a Nike windbreaker and his usual black sunglasses, looking relaxed and sounding strong. In it, he pleaded with Premier Wen Jiabao to punish the local authorities who had subjected Chen and his family to 20 months of house arrest and repeated beatings.
It was apparently taped in Beijing after He drove Chen north and handed him off to another activist, who brought him to the capital.
He herself was detained Friday by police. Hours before, she said she had been in contact with Chen's relatives, who told her that when the local village chief discovered Chen was gone, "he was furious."
Local thugs beat Chen's wife, his brother and his adult nephew, she said.
In Beijing, Chen was mainly aided by Guo Yushan, founder of a think tank set up in 2007 in the capital's university district.
He also met with prominent activists Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan, posing for smiling snapshots with the couple – pictures they later posted to Twitter. They discussed Chen's plan, determining that he wanted "justice and freedom" and had no intention of leaving.
Zeng said he seemed thinner and his hair was grayer than she remembered it, but he was full of conviction.
"He was very certain and very clear," Zeng said. "He wants justice for his case and his family, and he doesn't want to go abroad, doesn't want exile."
Despite Chen's desire to stay in China, Fu now says China and the U.S. are close to a deal that would give him and his family asylum in the United States. It could be announced within days, he said Monday.
He, the former schoolteacher, has not been heard from since her detention Friday; Guo was detained and released, but colleagues said it wasn't "convenient" for him to talk, suggesting he is under pressure from authorities to stay silent.
Zeng and her husband also were questioned, with Hu spending 24 hours in custody.
The only tidbit Fu offered about Chen's experience in Beijing was that he was involved in a car chase by security officials while being driven by a fellow dissident. But the agents were after the driver and didn't even know Chen was in the car.
"If they had known Chen was there, they probably would have shut down all of Beijing's traffic," Fu said.
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38 Parks near Lynden, Washington
Everson, Washington 5.51 miles SE
Nooksack, Washington 6.35 miles E
Aldergrove, British Columbia 8.26 miles NW
Ferndale, Washington 8.77 miles SW
Bellingham, Washington 10.01 miles SE
8717 Line Road Lynden, Washington 98264 (map) | (360) 354-4772
Sites: 200 | Latest Rate: $40.00 | 24 Reviews
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Sep 2016 - $40.00
We had a very small gravel sides with a concrete pad and a old picnic table.
They give people with 5th wheel sides, that they have to park the car half in the narrow driveway so it's very difficult to drive in and out of your side.
The pet area is only a lawn which is also used at a parking lot.
The sides are very close together and between the sides are no grass anymore only dirt.
The wifi was so bad I could not even open the Google website, fortunately AT&T provides 2 bars LTE. - Columbus
Aug 2016 - $50.00
A big park with lots of sites, a pond, a pool. Park was clean, well-maintained and check-in quick. Tons of amenities: ideal for families and reunions. Average camp-store. Place was packed when we arrived Aug 13th, Saturday. The roads are very narrow, parking ok and there's lots of trees to avoid when parking. Kids were everywhere, especially on the roads: watch out for them while driving. Our site was on a pond that was weed filled and loaded with ducks/geese. The park was noisy and crowded: kind of Washington State's version of a red-neck Riviera. Only stayed the night: glad to be moving on. - Owlet
Jul 2016 - $55.00
We generally like KOA sites as we have young children and they like playgrounds and to make friends on a weekend. The kids did well but there were lots of partying people at campsites with loud music whch ruined the time at the site for adults. Whoever decided outdoor speakers on RV's was a good idea had no idea what damage it would do to a community of campers when the minoirty can impose their DJ skills on the majority. At least there were no permanent campers living at the site and aside from dog dirt left unpicked up in the nearby field, it was well manicured. - RV Bell's
Lynden, Washington (map) | (360) 398-1041
Sites: 62 | Latest Rate: $34.00 | 20 Reviews
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Oct 2016 - $34.00
Stayed for apx. 3 weeks. Very convenient location. 15 minutes south to Bellingham, 15 minutes north to Canada USA border. Sites are reasonable size with some sites having a little tree coverage. Mostly grass sites. Staff friendly and helpful. Some long term residents but everything is kept in neat and tidy order. - tree_skier
Aug 2016 - $34.00
The park has a pool and playground for kids which we didn't use but it's available. Level sites. Wifi was decent. The rate includes the tax. Proximity to Bellingham and Mt Baker was good. They don't have any information on Bellingham or Mt. Baker, so you have to gather that on your own in town. - Junia
Jul 2016 - $34.00
Nice campground. Does use side by side hookups. Most sites are level. Most are pull through. - Vagabonds_41
6335 Portal Way Ferndale, Washington 98248 (map) | (360) 384-2622
Sites: 167 | Latest Rate: $52.00 | 30 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $52.00
Well maintained campground. Large number of full timers but clean and neat. Room to store coaches too. Very large transient sites with plenty of room. Staff friendly and helpful. - Norv Orbus
Aug 2016 - $48.00
Friendly greeting and very helpful quickly filling our propane tank. Sites are very wide and separated by eight foot trees on each side. Close to level. You pay extra for cable and wi-fi which is surprising considering the nightly cost. - Rd yacht
Jul 2016 - $50.00
This would be a great place for families with children. We did have a very spacious site but our door faced the other campers sitting under their awning and they could see into our living room if we left the front door open. Great site if you were camping with others though! Luckily we had great camping neighbors. Having your own fire pit was certainly a bonus. WiFi needs to be used outside of office, but has good connection in library as well. My only negative comment would be that the bathrooms might need to be cleaned twice per day instead of the once per day late morning. - Nini03
26331 28th Ave Aldergrove, British Columbia V4W 2W3 (map) | (604) 856-4524
Sites: 97 | Latest Rate: $32.00 | 9 Reviews
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Sep 2015 - $32.00
We had one of the few pull-through sites in this park. It was a paved level site with a patio and table. The utilities worked well as did the Wi-Fi and cable. It was easy to get to and fairly easy to get around in the park even with our 40' motorhome. We did see a couple of people struggle to get into their back-in site because of all the vehicles parked in the road. The host is friendly as were our neighbors. We would stay here again. - dandg
Oct 2013 - $34.00
Good spot for an overnight stop before crossing the border into the US at the Alderbrook crossing. Easy in/out off highway 13. Manager and staff were very friendly and thorough. Showed us to our site and even offered to help with hook-ups. Water connection was underground to protect from freezing. We had a back-in because there are only a very few pull-throughs - if you can call them that. They require a very tight turn to get out. It is best to back out! A tidy park. Spaces are a bit tight, but we managed. We didn't use the facilities, and our main frustration was the totally unreliable Wi-Fi. It constantly disconnected, going from strength 4 to zero, then reconnected for no apparent reason. - wfgk
May 2013 - $32.00
Fair paved park roads. Some sites had crumbling pavement, although some others had been repaved. Our site was a good paved back-in, but not very level. All utilities worked, but power pedestal was low to the ground. Good cable TV. Wi-Fi had a strong signal, but very little bandwidth for anything other than e-mail and browsing. Friendly office staff. I would return to this park as it is in a good location for visiting our relatives and has good value. - Onemoretrail
Ferndale, Washington (map) | (360) 384-5038
Sites: 27 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 1 Reviews
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Nov 2009 - $25.00
No credit cards accepted. Near grocer, gas station, and restaurants. Noise from I-5 not that bad. Wide enough paved sites with grass. Good Wi-Fi. Have stayed there several times. Good over nighter. - anon125
Sumas, Washington (map) | (360) 988-8875
Sites: 60 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 6 Reviews
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Jul 2016 - $25.00
Located in a large farming valley just west of Mt Baker. Took a lovely afternoon car ride up to the north side of Mt Baker: ends at 5000' with rest of the 10000' Mt and surrounding peaks to view.
Very helpful manager with lots of info. Wifi only near office. Nicest spot was patio table just outside the office in the shade of the firs. Many surrounding fields of corn; occasional whiff of dairy farm; trains run only in day time.
Used the RV park as my hub to take car north over ferry to Vancouver island to explore, then back a day before start of trip to Jasper. - Charlif
Jul 2012 - $25.00
Park has very few sites available for travelers. Most sites taken up by "permanent campers." Appears that only the visiting campers abide by the pet rules, keeping their dogs on a leash, and cleaning up after them. We had to clean our site of dog waste from big dogs before we could allow our dog out of the RV! No one was available at the office to collect or answer questions. Had to fill out our own pay form (no receipt) and use a drop box. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone. - drrv
Jun 2012 - $25.00
The best thing about this park was it's relation to the Canada border. We stayed here to make it convenient to go back and forth to Canada, and it worked for that. There is also a nice city sports park that connects to it that is well maintained and a good place to walk your pets. It's a good thing, too, because many of the dogs that belong to the many permanent residents are pits or pit mixes and not too friendly. The sites are gravel and grass, and you are mixed in with the permanent residents. I have never seen so much duct tape and blue tarps in one campground. We stayed for two days, and twice some of the permanent residents got into fist fights/ yelling/ cursing matches. It never felt safe or secure, and we never did see any management. One of the ram shackle trailers had a manager sign on it, but no one ever came around. You register with an envelope and drop it in a slot. And to top it off, the park is also surrounded by large lots of dairy cows. So the aroma of cow manure is a constant companion. I will not stay here again. - SargeW
26920 52nd Avenue Aldergrove, British Columbia V4W 1N6 (map) | (604) 856-6674
Sites: 60 | Latest Rate: $35.00 | 20 Reviews
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Oct 2016 - $35.00
Nice park, clean washroom. Park is next to the highway, lots of road noise. Easy to get to places being next to the highway. - Ernest
Aug 2016 - $39.00
This is a RV Park and not what I consider a campground but a really nice RV Park. Each spot surrounded on 3 sides by a tall hedge that really makes your site very private. We chose this park for our visit to Vancouver and Whistler. All services very clean and well maintained. Close to HWY 1 that makes park a little noisy but also convenient to travel to Vancouver which is about an hour away depending on traffic. Would definitely stay again. - smitty12
Jul 2016 - $39.00
Received a very warm greeting. When I asked if our pre-assigned site was satellite friendly, our site was immediately changed so we could get reception (west side of CG.) The sites are level and privacy is assured by a wall of trees on each side. A couple of quirks in that the power connection is way up front on sites and you can't get away from the noise of Highway 1. - Rd yacht
Bellingham, Washington (map) | (360) 752-1224
Sites: 56 | Latest Rate: $38.00 | 69 Reviews
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Aug 2016 - $38.00
Used as base for 3 week stay. It is close to interstate; there is a long term airport parking lot next door and a Hampton Inn on other side; plus a commercial truck parking lot. The sites are close together; maybe 6 to 7 feet apart. All that being said, we watched big rigs come and go with no problem due to the angled layout of sites and the driveways. No one seemed to have a major problem with leveling. Nor did we have any problem with noise and I am a light sleeper. The cable is good. The office, showers, restrooms and laundry are convenient and very clean. Showers are private, individual with plenty of room for dressing. Restrooms have 2 stalls, with 2 sinks in each. 4 washers and 4 dryers -$1.50 to wash, $1.25 to dry, and machines are quite large. There are several full time residents and I didn't see any that were run down, etc. In fact, several are kept nicely landscaped. There is a dog walk area at the back of the park, but no leash free area. There are no amenities for recreational purposes or for children. The staff are friendly and helpful. Yes, there are free cookies and coffee in the office. And it is easy to find. We recommend this as an excellent base park. Lots of attractions in the area. Shopping, dining very close. B. C. Canada a short drive. Seattle 2 to 3 hours. Beautiful Mt Baker is visible and a scenic drive of 2 hours away. But it is true, I wouldn't call it a"destination" RV park. - JudynJoe
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Bellingham RV Park is best suited for single overnight, or park & fly scenario given it is very close to local airport. Sites are level on gravel but very close together with no trees/shrubs to separate neighbors. Grass was near dead, and some picnic tables were in dire need of repair. Wifi is only adequate for light duty. No pool or other amenities to boast. Do not plan second visit. - Spun69
Aug 2016 - $38.00
Was pleasantly surprised that it was quiet even though you do hear I-5 traffic in the distance, occasional train, but no aircraft or neighborhood truck parking. Sites are narrow, graveled and tiered with grass! Many older rigs that appear to be permanent throughout park with some messy yards. Big rig friendly, strong utilities, cable TV, and convenient location. Would stay again for overnight. - RJourney
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Park is unkempt. Bathrooms filthy. Laundromat had cigarette butts and dirt on the floors for 2 days no one cleaning up. Permanent sites nosiest after hours. Site 59 partied till 2 in the morning with people and children hollering. No one for security. Permanents have cars parked all over had to navigate your unit through the tight roads. The park has gone way down hill in the last few years, seems the owners no longer care about the park, are only interested in the money. Too bad as it used to be a great place to camp. Will definitely not recommend it to anyone and not going back. - on the go rving
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Nice park with a clean pool. There are a lot of permanent sites and the people are friendly. Although quiet time is supposed to be enforced at 11:00 it may not be so. We will return, but will bring earplugs next time. - Wifiechin
Aug 2015 - $42.00
We stayed in this park for 3 days. They lack proper security to enforce quiet time. Seems like quite the party "animal" park: loud. What seems to be permanent residents, sitting outside drinking till 1 in the morning, hooting and hollering. The sad part was one of the park's employees was part of the party. You would think they would show a little more respect for the travelers. Also smells like a great park to get high in. Lots of marijuana smokers. We walked around the park and the smell of dope was very noticeable. They should be ashamed of saying this park is a 5 star park.
Restrooms and showers were clean. - on the go rving
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This is a quiet park just up the street from Birch Bay. A nice walk or bike ride will get you there and to Birch Bay State Park. The campground is mostly permanent guests, sites are level, and good sized. We were in a nice spot that we backed into a big field, so you had plenty of room behind you. Wi Fi was fair. No problems with satellite dish. We never saw one camp employee. When we arrived, our paperwork was on the door (11:30 am) The sign said the office was open at 10 am and 4pm. I guess if you needed someone you would have to go then! Very odd, but again, most there are permanent seasonals, so I'm sure they would have advice if needed. Lawn guys were a hired local outfit. The park is tidy and pretty manicured. There are some very unsightly, rundown sites that really ruin the overall esthetics of the park. It always amazes us that owners let this happen. The laundry room is centrally located and small. 3 washers, 4 dryers in a very small room. No place to fold clothes, and you're really out of luck if someone else is in there! Location is convenient to the Canadian border for day trips to Vancouver. Overall a safe, quiet campground with few amenities. Would stay here again. - KSAM14
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This quiet park sits just 10 minutes from the bay on foot. It has a smooth paved road that leads to level gravel sites easily accessible by big rigs. The pull-thru campsites sit on the edge of a large grass area giving them a very open feel. There is grass between each site, a little wider most than most parks, with picnic table and fire ring. Plenty of room for 4 slides and an awning with no trees to block your satellite dish. Free WiFi worked fine as did our sprint phone and 3G. Grounds were clean and well cared for. Bathrooms and laundry were also clean and maintained. Most of the park is filled with full timers, so there are some very old, unsightly rigs surrounded by clutter, but the residents were all friendly and quiet. - Road Train
Sep 2013 - $33.00
Not a bad place for a short stay, but too many permanent residents for my liking. It was clean and close to attractions. Our site was level and they offered free Wi-Fi which didn't always work all that well. They advertise Good Sam and Passport America rates, but honor neither on the weekend so we received no discount at all. They do state that on the website, but I thought they should at least offer a Good Sam discount. All things considered, we would probably stay there again. - grooveman


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